The open society at work
The open society at work
Had an experience of the open society at work the other day. The national broadcaster in Denmark was preparing to run a story sunday evening on the security issues with wlan/802.11b. In the old world this would have been going on totally behind the scenes, but this time it was different…
Kasper Mejlgaard noted on his weblog sunday morning that the broadcaster was working on the story and that he was to be interviewed for it.
Not only did i get the information that the story was under way, i got the chance to influence the interview Kasper would do by emailing him (not that he needed it since he’s a clued-in guy), deconstruct and discuss the media angle with friends via instant messaging and try to get hold of people in my network that has access to the editors at the broadcaster. Now i didn’t get hold of the broadcaster internally, but still the story shows the amazing power of personal publishing and the promise of an open society.
It’s open vs. closed, creating reality vs. receiving reality, it’s interactivity vs. broadcast, it’s open processes vs. closed processes and finally personal publishing vs. BigMedia…
PS. The story they ran ended up being fine - basically only highlighting the clueslessness of the municipal of Copenhagen running an open wifi network directly on their internal network with everything open - and not as i feared, an attack on the technology itself.