A few days ago I was down in Santa Barbara at Doc Searls‘ place with Dan Gillmor to discuss the local media situation. While there, I did a video interview with Doc about some of the principles of blogging and citizen journalism, including independence and fairness. Doc, naturally, had some wise things to say. (I keep calling him a wise guy — maybe because he’s from Jersey, too.) And it was the first interview he’s given in his cool new house.
Some of the highlights: "Technorati’s top 100 just fucked up blogging a
lot. … Suddenly there’s an A list and a power curve and all this
bullshit, and it’s irrelevant. … It reduces to a number something
that’s inherently not numerical. It’s a wrong thing to do." (Doc makes clear he’s a huge fan of Technorati — indeed, he sits on their Advisory Board — and he’s friends with Dave Sifry.)
"We don’t have a commons [on the Net] yet." We’re not always kind to
each other online because "we don’t have a sense of public place."
There are people having "a blog exchange without any evidence of a
human exchange."
The 14-minute interview can be found:
• On Ourmedia (media page | watch video)
• On Blip.tv in MPEG-4 or Flash
• On Motionbox (watch video in Flash and jump around)
• On vlogcentral (watch video in WMV or in MPEG4)
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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