Back in 1999, I wrote about the first-person narrative news magazine Orato.com, out of New Zealand. In 2001 I followed up with a report about the burst bubble in content sites, with Orato struggling to find funding. Well, now comes word that Orato.com is alive and well and publishing as a citizen journalism site out […]
Interview: Dusty Wright of Culture Catch
At Macworld Expo last Friday I conducted this 16-minute video interview with Dusty Wright, co-founder of the Culture Catch podcast. If you haven’t heard of it, you should check it out — Dusty and co. have been doing an audio podcast since 2005 and they’re now moving into video. Dusty’s a fascinating, garrulous guy with […]
On ‘Cranky Geeks’
John Dvorak’s Cranky Geeks Internet TV show has a bonus episode about the future of media on the Internet, IPTV, citizen journalism, new advertising models and net neutrality. I’m on it, along with Anil Dash and Sebastian Rupley.
Interview: Tower Records’ founder on its rise & fall
I recently interviewed Russ Solomon, founder of Tower Records, about the music retailing giant’s rise and fall. The interview took place as employees were clearing out of the company’s headquarters in West Sacramento, Calif. A couple of surprising comments: "I don’t think we’re seeing the passing of an era (from physical goods to digital downloads). […]
Wikipedia on Elisabeth Shue
This is pretty cool: Wikipedia came across my photo collection of actress Elisabeth Shue on Flickr and asked me to change the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license on one of them to a CC Attribution license so that they could use it. I did, of course. Here’s the entry.