Create. Share. Get noticed

Fancy being able to tell the grandkids that I was in San Francisco when Ourmedia.org launched! Well actually I'm in Ukiah to participate in a Train the Trainers workshop with the people from the Center for Digital Storytelling, but hey it's near enough!

I first learnt of the concept of Ourmedia.org when Jean Burgess had an academic orgasm. Jean asked quite sensibly: "Why is the production and consumption of digital stories, for example, so static and limited?" Stories are for telling and as he points out, too many people's digital stories languish on a CD or on a website somewhere, all but forgotten.

Enter Ourmedia.org; Jean was right to be excited:

…what excites me is not only the idea of a 'repository' of multiple genres of independent and amateur broadband content, where users and upload and download, and remake content at will, subject to Creative Commons licensing. This is a damn good idea.

But much more exciting to me are the hints of an intention to build communities of practice in and around the content…

Now much more than a hint, those communities will be built through the use of blogs, social forums, RSS, FOAF, tagging—all the usual social software suspects! So what are you waiting for? Sign up!

Update: Want to watch the latest digital stories posted to Ourmedia.org? Aggregate this feed. Other media feeds can be found here. Gotta love RSS!