For some reason I can't leave a comment on Howard's 11/11/03 "Who's Out There? Smartmobbers sign in, please!" post, so I'll leave it here. He says, "I'm wondering -- who's out there? And what do you get out of this?... Who are you? What do you do? Where are you? What do you want to be fed here?"

I tune into Howard and Smartmobs to remind myself of the urgency and fragility of the p2p media movement. While there are substantial collective efforts toward development of alternative media and realization of media reform, my focus is on the development of decentralized television and film production systems that transform video production tools and techniques into social activities. I'm currently seeking partners to build out the core infrastructure for video blogging- participatory media frameworks designed for smartmob media production, peer-to-peer production management, citizen journalism, and media games. The inevitable fragmentation of the highly concentrated media and entertainment economy is an opportunity to propagate sustainable economic models for media citizens. Connected committed citizens mature and flourish by organically cataloging, annotating, appropriating, transforming, and redistributing independent thoughts, feelings, and actions. Technologies and techniques that nurture this sustainable economic independence simultaneously fuel collective interdependence. And at the end of the first chapter, the mass media of the future is playground and battlefield for an audience that finds it natural to educate, entertain, and inform itself.