Today and Thursday I’ll be in San Jose, Calif., at the first Web Video Summit put on by Jupitermedia. I helped put on one of the tracks, and I’ll be moderating two panels: Making News News, with Brian Conley of Alive in Baghdad, Steve Grove of YouTube, Brian Gruber of fora.tv and Josh Wolf of […]
Why the future of stock photography belongs to all of us — not Corbis and Getty
In response to this Katie Hafner piece in the NY Times announcing Corbis’s new website, which lets anyone sell photos (It’ll Be Photographer’s Choice on a Web Site From Corbis), my friend Thomas Hawk, CEO of Zooomr.com with three o’s — Thomas is a not-too-shabby photographer — has this important post: Why Corbis’ New SnapVillage […]
Veronica Belmont of the Crave Vodcast
I met some very cool people at the Pixelodeon festival two weeks ago. I’ll be posting interviews over the next week or so. Here’s a 3-minute video interview I did with CNET associate editor Veronica Belmont, who has quite a following over at veronicabelmont.com. She hosts CNET’s Crave Video Podcast. I’m starting to experiment with […]
Kent Bye on political videos
At Pixelodeon I interviewed Kent Bye about the new PoliticalVideo.org project as well as his Echo Chamber project and the role of the citizenry in providing video commentary on the 2008 election. PoiticalVideo took 500 hours from the WhiteHouse.gov site and is making the public domain footage of President George W. Bush available for download, […]
At Supernova 2007
Spent the day at Challenge Day at Supernova. Not sure if I’ll be able to attend the rest of the conference Thursday and Friday, but today was rewarding. Spotted, met or spoke with: Susan Wu, Kevin Marks, Liz Lawley, Raph Koster, Deb Schultz, Mary Hodder, Jeff Schwartz, Brian Solis, Esme Vos, David Weinberger, Doc Searls, […]