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May 08, 2005
Open Media 100 Nominations
I'm glad Liz took issue with the "Founding Fathers" bullshit. I was pretty much going to ignore this whole Open Media thing until someone pointed out that it would be responsible to walk my talk and actually nominate some women. This goes against my grain because i'm not one for nominating anything. This is certainly not everyone but a small selection of kickass women and folks/tools that support subversion.
The Pioneers: Caterina Fake (for Flickr), Meg Hourihan (for Blogger), Mena Trott (for SixApart)
The Tool Smiths: BitTorrent and Sip (for disrupting borders)
The Trendsetters: ??
The Practitioners: Rebecca Blood (for being a pioneering practitioner), Margaret Cho (for taking media heat), Barb Dybwad (for Engadget & Dykes Do Digital), Mary Hodder (for napsterization), Dina Mehta (for bridging distance through common ground)
The Enablers: Esther Dyson (for putting her money where her mouth is), Paula Le Dieu (for the BBC Creative Archive), Wendy Seltzer (for kicking legal ass), Ethan Zuckerman (for taking openness international)
I should note that i have issues with the whole "open media" thing. Open to whom? Openness has this magical quality to it - if you provide access, all other inequalities are washed away. I hate supporting such fantastical utopianism. All the same... Besides, i don't see why all social software should be framed as open media - this makes no sense to me. Also, i take issues with nominating "top bloggers in politics, business, technology, and media." What the hell? Open media to me means not having to fit into silly topical categories. I don't have any clue what trendsetters means so i've decided to ignore that category altogether.
In my crankiness, i also realized i want a new category: The Critics. These are the folks who've been publicly discussing open media's strengths and weaknesses and pushing all of the other folks to get out of utopian la-la-land and change the way they operate. They are kinda oppositional to trendsetters - they challenge instead of play pied piper. Interestingly, i would have no shortage of women to include in that category.
Posted by zephoria at 11:08 AM in General | Permalink
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I was planning to ignore this too but can't now that it's on Misbehaving ;-)
Are the nominations supposed to be focused on the English-speaking world? If not, I'd add Oh Yeon-Ho, founder of OhmyNews. And in the practitioners (aka bloggers) section I'd love to see some names from Iran and China: http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGPOL300152005
Posted by: Foe at May 8, 2005 1:44:26 PM
I stumbled onto your site by making search of Ani DiFranco. I must say, you are a well accomplished individual! I'm always proud of persons who take hold and action on their own lives, and not follow those "TRENDSETTERS" Ideas of ways to be. I look foward to viewing more of your posts and papers. :)
Posted by: crystal at May 16, 2005 11:34:01 AM
