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Just came out of Friday's opening plenary with some interesting discussion on the meaning of Commonwealth and collaborative work.  The plenary, moderated by Valerie Linson of WGBH and led by discussants Kristina Newman-Scott, David Bollier, and Tamara Gould, explored varying and evolving manifestations of Commonwealth-- from the new digital commons via the Internet and Web 2.0 to the move away from purely broadcast to a multiplicity of communication outlets. 

I’m heading to Boston on Wednesday for an industry conference called Commonwealth. The conference, co-hosted by the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) and the Center for Independent Documentary, is a place where community media centers, national media arts organizations, university educators, museum presenters, film festivals and archives, youth media programs, public access television stations, national arts policy think tanks, and related groups come together to assess the state of the field, share resources and best practices, inspire each other, build relationships to benefit local neighborhoods, national movements, and global communities.

Reserve your spot in a Thursday evening dine-around or Friday afternoon tour online now before you arrive at the Conference in Boston.

When I first read about this I was pretty skeptical, "of great another conference that purports to think about media and the future," yet as I look through the program I am genuinely curious. And for a bitter person like me, that is saying something.