Spent a few minutes at NetSquared today chatting with David Cohn, whom I first met in person a year ago at Personal Democracy Forum, but it seems like I bump into him at every conference these days (at NewsTools at Yahoo! earlier this month and then at Innovation Journalism at Stanford last week). As I […]
Breakfast with Jeff Pulver and friends
I have a big backlog of videos I need to get up soon. Here’s a video I took on my Nokia N95 cell phone of tech entrepreneur Jeff Pulver during our blogger/citizen journalism tour of Israel in April. Jeff threw a breakfast at the start of the Marker conference showing off elements of social media […]
NY Times to test crowdsourcing its data
From my new post at the IdeaLab blog: News about a potentially big deal in the newspaper industry broke just before the holiday weekend. No, not another story about a chain swallowing another chain, or news about the formation of yet another online advertising platform that’s doomed to underperform. Instead, this was a kind of […]
YouTube launches citizen news channel
YouTube has just launched a citizen news channel, pointing out efforts like The UpTake. And they’ve hired a news manager, Olivia Ma, who can be reached at [email protected]. Congrats, YouTube! Thanks to David Cohn for the pointer.
Photos of Tiburon
A few days back I took a walk down Blackie’s Pasture in Tiburon (Marin County) for the first time with Jeff and Rick, and took these photos as spring kicked into high gear. (A lot of these photos look best at full size.) Beautiful area.