Here are some quick impressions on a few of the books I’m reading: Googlepedia: The Ultimate Google Resource By Michael Miller 822 pages (Que)Page on Amazon Here’s a how-to guide that covers just about the entire Google universe. Miller takes us through the basics, such as how Google works, how to narrow your search to […]
Download and watch YouTube videos
Once of the things I’ve immensely disliked about YouTube since its launch is that the site offers you no way to download a video. (All of the 100,000-plus videos on Ourmedia can be downloaded.) I’ve previously written about MobileWhack (download YouTube videos to your iPod) and about Spain’s vDownloader. Now comes this great list of […]
Web sites for user-generated video
With Hollywood’ writers strike on, the San Jose Mercury News suggests switching off the television and tuning in to Web video. They include Ourmedia.org in their list of Web sites for user-generated video: www.youtube.com vids.myspace.com video.msn.com www.current.com www.blip.tv www.break.com www.videoegg.com www.dailymotion.com www.veoh.com video.google.com/ www.crackle.com www.jumpcut.com www.aol.com www.eyespot.com video.yahoo.com www.metacafe.com www.ourmedia.org
Making money with citizen media sites
I spent five minutes at the recent Online News Association conference in Toronto chatting with Courtney Lowery, a friend who’s the editor in chief of NewWest.net, one of the premier citizen media sites in the land. The day before, she gave a presentation about how to bring in different revenue streams to your pro-am citizen […]
The coming Progressive Era
Spent Thursday night at a talk about politics at Adaptive Path in San Francisco, sponsored by Girls in Tech and Good Ol’ Girls. Peter Leyden, who’s a friend from here and there, gave a riveting talk about the wide sweeps of American history. We’re at another epic moment, he suggests: the dawning of a new […]