Jacob Soboroff just happened to be passing through town on the same night our DC Media Makers meeting was taking place. He showed up and talked a bit about video blogging and the Why Tuesday? project. I remember hearing about Why Tuesday? on the news, back during the last election. If nothing else, it's a great example of what can be done with the technology we all now have readily at hand and a bit of effort. Is the finished product smooth and glitzy like a PR firm produced PSA? Nope. And that's one of the things that makes grass-roots journalism and activism work. We're all sick of being sold to and told what to do. Better to let our own voices be heard, no matter how rough around the edges they may be.
It's about time someone did this. For at least the past decade and a half I've been wondering why there wasn't a bigger push for nuclear power. The only answer I could ever come up with was irrational fear and outright ignorance of just how tenuous our power situation was becoming. As long as the NIMBY crowd and the the ever present "we're against it just because they're for it" groups don't get in the way, this should help. And, perhaps even more hopefully, Southern Co won't cut corners to save a few bucks and leave the world once again thinking nuclear power is a bad idea shortly after the plants go online. (Oh, and where's the push for more research into fusion... that would be much better in the long run than our regular fission plants.)
