Growing the New Technopolis

Taking a moment to count the blessing here in Nashville, TN. Mid-day on a Tuesday. Mid April.

Here’s to a beautiful, fulfilling Spring to the GNT team of Doug and Mike and everyone else.

We are about to begin harvesting the media for the Podcast Tournament. This is a relatively new project in a dynamic and emergent field. Some of what’s to come has been foreseen and anticipated, while we undoubtedly will encounter unexpected challenges that will test the mettle.

A lot of what we do is done on faith: A kind of if we build it they will come kind of DIY approach. We have extended our growth into two new states. Every day new partners for the journey emerge and engage. In some ways, GNT is a kind of patriotic affirmation. A way to create the good news (intentionally) as an option to having to settle for the bad news. Keeping this position viable without lapsing in sentimentality or the maudlin is a challenge and why poetry is so hard to do well.

In this work, I have learned so much about what is possible. About resources appearing when one least expects them. About looking past personal and professional disappointments and adapting to innovations that never seem to stop morphing.

About how much we know and how much we don’t know.

How can we evolve our individual and collective thinking and doing to serve the greater good of all involved?

And how do you measure that?

Fascinating recent post on Jenkins’ blog. An interview with Youth Radio producers and student participants, in which he starts out by debunking what he feels are some of the myths surrounding the whole digital natives vs. digital immigrants construct. This also speaks to youth as active producers of high-quality digital content.

http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/08/youth_radio.html