http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/tony_curzon_price/da_tubes_global_conversation_with_200_people Comments for "Da-Tube's Global Conversation with 200 people, " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/tony_curzon_price/da_tubes_global_conversation_with_200_people <p> The tuberculosis sanatoria of the Magic Mountain at Davos fill every year with the business leaders who, ill of their tarnished images, want to put themselves into the spotlight of the media and tell the world that they are better than the world thinks. </p> <p> This year, this involved luring Google/YouTube into the &quot;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/davos">Davos Question</a>&quot;: ask the world to post 1 minute videos outlining solutions to the world&#39;s problems, and have the leaders watch them. You might be able to spot two problems with the formulation already: a) if you get each person to describe a solution in 1 minute, you can expect something pretty reductive, and b) what if 10 million people did upload their views? How would you filter them? How would the business leaders, with their valuable time measured in the $millions per hour, ever be able to come good on their promise to watch them? </p> <p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/tony_curzon_price/da_tubes_global_conversation_with_200_people" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/tony_curzon_price/da_tubes_global_conversation_with_200_people">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/tony_curzon_price/da_tubes_global_conversation_with_200_people#comment oD Today populism Tony Curzon Price Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:19:20 +0000 tcp-old 35666 at http://www.opendemocracy.net