Social marketing expert Ayelet Noff talks about the social media and Web 2.0 scene in Israel during this 9-minute video interview I conducted with her during our blogger posse road trip to Israel. A former New Yorker, Ayelet is a rising star in Web 2.0 circles in Tel Aviv and helped us with all phases […]
Wireless AirCard: Internet (almost) everywhere
In December I bought a Sierra Wireless AirCard 875U. It’s time to tell you how the experiment is going. What it is: The AirCard is a wireless 3G modem that you can insert into your Mac or PC laptop’s USB port to gain connectivity to the broadband Internet. Why I did it: I’d put up […]
ReelChanges: viewer-funded documentaries
Big banner on the wall: “How can the intersection of journalism & technology serve democracy?” That’s the overarching theme of NewsTools 2008, where 200 or so folks are gathered today (and tomorrow) at Yahoo! as well as Saturday at a Sunnyvale hotel for Innovations in Journalism Expo 2008. I’ll post a few highlights from today: […]
How to find the right domain name
At the IdeaLab blog, Dan Gillmor writes about the value of finding the right domain name and he points to a couple of free services I hadn’t heard of: MakeWords is a "name generator" — essentially, you plug in keywords and it gives you suggestions. The flexibility is impressive. You can tell it how the […]
Video contest: What is Remix Culture?
Owen Gallagher, Creative Director of TotalRecut.com, passes along word of a remix contest that I’ll be a judge in: TotalRecut.com is hosting a Video Remix Challenge over the next two months and we want you to create a short video using the theme: ‘What is Remix Culture?’ You can you use any footage you can […]