Confronting the Evidence reflects to an interesting emerging practice in personal media—trying to influence public opinion by issuing a free DVD that pulls together individual citizen journalism, investigations, and speculation on a specific topic.
In this case it's multiple alternative theories about the World Trade Center. I have not seen the material, but what I find interesting is the way that personal media looking to find its form. Here individual reports—otherwise essentially invisible as they are spread across scores of personal blogs—are combined on a convenient DVD package and distributed for free.
It's sort of like Netflix for social activists.
Expect your mailbox to fill to brimming in the next few years with shiny plastic discs packed with multimedia appeals an every imaginable topic.
Remember those print mailers with pictures of dead seals meant to tug your heart-strings on behalf of ecology causes? Now they'll be writing in full-motion agony and braying in stereo. Get ready.
>> And speaking of getting ready, are you ready for the real War on Terror. [Via Eyebeam]
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