February 26, 2005 | Filed under:

I always enjoy seeing things like this where 'amateurs' passionately create (in this case a feature length movie of Pratchett's Lords and Ladies). increasingly ordinary people (as opposed to specialist entertainment groups with big budgets) have the tools to make their ideas real. While I worked in theatre a good friend of mine described his time in Brasilian theatre. The theatre is vibrant and creative their because no one did it professionally - everybody did it for the act of creation itself or the capacity for the theatre to be a tool for engaging with thier culture directly - for participating in it. The Internet at large seems to be coming alive with this kind of culture where people who were once 'consumers' are beginning to participate in the content fabric of the net.

Blogging already has users jamming with each other on an intellectual/textual level; Flickr interacts with the world through pictures... what's next?

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