My New Brainchild

Life's just been going on since I last posted. Time goes by so fast, it's hard to believe it's almost the middle of February! Although it seems like I've been gone, I really hadn't left the blogosphere at all. Truth is, I as much as moved into it this past month working on a new site, The New Media Collective. It's so much more than a blog to me, it's really a cause—a movement even.


The whole thing stemmed from an idea I had about 6 years ago when I was involved with public access television. I'm always scribbling ideas down, and one of them was for a nonprofit media organization. My friend Allaix, a kindred spirit when it comes to creative things, had an idea for a similar project where videomakers would come together and pool their resources. A few of us met a couple of times, and during one of the meetings, I brought my ideas for The Collective to the table, but nothing ever got off the ground.

Once I came to the blogosphere, the idea slowly crept back on me. It's been almost a year since I've been blogging, and I've seen very few people who look like me out here. At first, I was so busy just trying to learn all this and keep my sites going, that I didn't have much time to trip. However, once I got into videoblogging, it just became overwhelmingly apparent that something was desperately wrong. There was a preponderance of white maleness that should never exist in a "world wide" anything. Where the hell were the rest of us?!

That's when I decided to rework my old idea into a blog. I set it up as a community site for digital media makers of color, primarily bloggers (this includes vloggers, podcasters, and photobloggers), to come together, learn some things, and most of all see themselves. My goal is to make it a full-blown organization with it's platform being to raise awareness about the "digital divide," and provide new media knowledge and technology to those who wouldn't otherwise have access to it.

To be truthful, I have no idea how all this is going to come together. All I know is that it's something I have to do. As with everything else, I'm just going to open myself to the Universe and take it one day at a time.