Meme Hubs
Meme hubs are individuals and groups that have a wide audience on the internet. Because they have a large following, they are capable of creating cultural memes.
from Edward Miller:
My conception of "meme hubs" includes people as well as groups. Really any prolific person who has a wide enough audience could be considered a meme hub. There are plenty of prolific people whose interests orbit ours.
I know Kevin Carson and Michel Bauwens already are aware of you, and by now we have probably contacted James Hughes and others.
Here is a short list of others:
Jeremy Rifkin
Kevin Kelly
Douglas Rushkoff
Corey Doctorow
Chris Anderson
RU Sirius
Marshall Brain
Charlie Stross
Bruce Sterling
Peter Barnes
Antonio Negri
and if you are especially lucky, Noam Chomsky. I have taken the liberty to contact him. As for the rest of these guys, I could try to help contact them. I don't know how successful I will be, but if even one of them helps out it would be great.
Meme hub orgs:
As far as meme hubs, I recommend contacting the following publications, and link them to your Distillations videos.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/
http://www.technologyreview.com/
If you get these place to publicize your work, the liklihood of you showing up in the New Scientist or Discover is greatly amplified. Also, if you build up a rapport with people like Jamais Cascio, then perhaps they might be able to talk to people at, say, Wired.
I know that Ronald Bailey, an editor of Reason Magazine, is very connected to the transhumanist community, and especially friendly with James Hughes.
Also, I recommend posting on these forums:
http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?showforum=179
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Joseph knows a variety of other open source tech workshops and collectives which have formed around the country, and he has compiled a Registry of such projects at www.freedomofscience.org , a website which I designed for his organization. I recommend contacting as many of them as possible, to see if any of them are interested in working with Factor e. There are also just a lot of little hobbyist groups that you should contact, such as the RepRap user groups.
There is even a Kansas City group: http://forums.reprap.org/list.php?104
There are also some good mailing lists:
http://groups.google.com/group/postscarcity
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/abundance-the-journal-of-post
Those are related to Joseph's Journal called Abundance about post-scarcity economics. I recommend you submit something to the journal. I will be submitting something.
There are other mailing lists too, such as http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing
You may already be aware of some of these. You might also want to ask http://adciv.org/ to publicize some of your achievements, as P2P foundation has.
Sorry for the deluge of links, but I hope it helps.
