At We Media in Miami last month, the highlight for me was what happened outside the conference: a half-hour sitdown with the wonderful Nikki Mondschein, creator of the serial fiction blog The Star Islanders. (It currently ranks at #96 among Literature blogs, says blogtopsites.com.) No, a serial fiction blog isn’t something written by Hugh Hewitt […]
St. Patrick’s Day photos
Here are 44 photos from the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Celebration in Dublin, Calif. (yes, named after that Dublin), on Saturday.
Not on the ‘NewsHour’
I was invited to appear on today’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS today to discuss Viacom’s lawsuit against YouTube, but couldn’t make it. I think I would have been partnered with Susan Crawford, an assistant professor of law at Cardozo Law School, whom I’ve admired for years as a reformer in the field of […]
In conversation with Dan Gillmor
One week from now I’ll be interviewing Dan Gillmor — actually, he’ll be having a conversation with the audience and I’ll try not to get in the way — in the first Conversation Series sponsored by Ourmedia and Outhink and put on by the nonprofit Community Media Center in Palo Alto, Calif. Dan, of course, […]
Viacom: One beeeeelion dollars
(copyright photo by New Line Cinema) From Jeremiah Owyang: Viacom: “One Beeeeelion Dollars.” This is one of those news stories we’ve all been expecting for some time (and which will be old news by the time tomorrow’s newspapers hit the doorstep). I’m a bit conflicted about this. I like YouTube a lot (except for its […]