Spectrum Online: Mark Cuban: YouTube is doomed. Excerpt: Cuban: … So much of YouTube’s success and model is based on the safe harbor—which seems really slippery. … If you [consider] the safe harbor, I don’t think YouTube is a service provider. Two, it says that if you are aware of infringement, you have got […]
Sari Gelser on Truthout.org
At Pixelodeon last month I had a chance to chat with Sari Gelser, news editor of Truthout.org, a distributed citizen news network that’s doing important work. Here’s our 3-minute video interview: MPEG-4 video at 640×480 | Ourmedia page Flash version on Internet Archive MPEG-4 or Flash version at 320×240 on Blip.tv
A modest review of ‘Everything Is Miscellaneous’
How is the Internet reshaping our ideas about organizing information — and, in many ways, our ideas about organizing our lives? One of our keenest cultural observers, David Weinberger, helps frame the discussion in illuminating ways in his new book, Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. I’ve seen David enthrall audiences […]
Do video producers need a model release form?
Do video producers and video bloggers need to obtain a right-of-publicity/model release form from the subjects of their videos if they plan on using the video commercially (including making money from ads)? I posed the question to San Francisco attorney Colette Vogele at the recent Web Video Summit in San Jose, and then caught up […]
Nokia’s N95: The cure for iPhone envy
Suffering from iPhone lust? While the media have been abuzz over Steve Jobs’ so-called Jesus phone, Nokia has recently released a fabulous gizmo that’s actually a much better phone. It’s the Nokia N95. As a member of the Nokia bloggers program, I’ve had fun over the past year testing out the latest cool toys that […]