I know a woman who is an organizer and fundraiser for choices at the beginning and at the end of life. Causes such as making sure that government does not force pregnant women to give birth, and ensuring that the same civil authorities would not deny a terminal patient with intractable pain a way to leave their body consensually, and with some degree of dignity.

But in terms of means to spread her message, this woman is more into meeting with like-minded people in small discussion groups in the basements of progressive churches than she is into advocacy spread by mobile multimedia technology.

Goddess bless her, but when she encounters someone who disagrees,she was, and is, also one for beating people over the head with her message. You know the type that talks at you rather than to you, and tries to shame you into thinking the way they do.

I remember showing her my fancy video and photo-capable cell phone. Not in so many words, she viewed my new handset as just another exotic creation of a transnational technocracy using technology to get us to spend our obsessive consumerist, materialist dollars.

At the time, though, there was not a Web site called Ourmedia.

Ourmedia is not an agitprop site, but one on which you can freely upload your photos, images,videos, or music you've made and have them available for all the world to see and hear. Your creations can come from a pricey SLR (single-lens-reflex) digital camera, professional DV camcorder, or in the case of images,just a pixel-ly cell phone camera.

The cool part about cell phones with cameras is that unlike digital cameras that most of us tote along only on special occasions, if you carry a cell with you, the camera inside it travels with you. So, maybe you can capture that iconic image that reflects your sociopolitical passion - the homeless man on the sidewalk with his dog, your aunt in the final, painful throes of cancer, an elderly farmer standing out in a field surrounded by suburban sprawl, a clever bumper sticker that says it all.

And then, through an easy process, you can post it to Ourmedia. Then, the next time you make up a fundraising letter or a poster touting a rally, you can include a link to your photos or clips.

Ourmedia is far from perfect, though. I hope that in the next several months, they really get their site usability thing together. Search is awkward and extremely limited, indexing of sections is confusing, and pageloading is timely and occasionally unsuccessful.

There is, though, vast potential in sites such as Ourmedia to act as true community tools for what we can do with our mobile devices.