Yesterday I spent a few minutes with David Weinberger — an old friend, co-author of Cluetrain and author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined — after his lively and deeply interesting keynote talk at the New Communications Forum. I pulled him into the hallway for a 4-minute video interview with my Nokia N-93 cell phone (the […]
YouTube’s 4 big failings
I like YouTube. I really do. I use it, and credit them with blowing the doors off the grassroots video revolution by making it brain-dead simple to upload and share videos. But when author David Weinberger cited YouTube as a public commodity — "it’s ours" — it was a bit too much. I cornered David […]
At NewComm Forum
Just gave a talk about grassroots video and social media at a session at the third New Communications Forum put on by the Society for New Communications Research. Showed a whole bunch of videos, including political mash-ups, the SXSW Interactive mash-up we did last year with Josh Leo, Steve Garfield and others, and the JetBlue […]
Maui photos
Back from a few days in Maui. Perfect weather, two dozen whale sightings (many right from the beach at Kanaapali), and I got a head start on my summer tan. Oh, and here’s the de rigeur Flickr photo set.
Web video beyond YouTube
Walt Mossberg (whom I ran into last week in San Jose) in the Wall Street Journal: It’s Not All YouTube — The Web Is a Trove Of Watchable Videos. Amen to that, brother. Excerpt: While YouTube is sometimes seen as synonymous with the Internet video revolution, there is a lot more to Web video. In […]