Here’s the 5-minute music video I put together for the Idea Festival called Flavors of participatory media. It shows the wide range of citizen media — videoblogs, podcasts, citizen media sites, place sites, photo sharing sites, mash-ups — and carries a message: There’s far more to this revolution than lip syncing on YouTube. (Ourmedia page […]
Photos from Idea Festival
Here are a few photos from my trip to Louisville’s Idea Festival. That’s author/big thinker Ray Kurzweil, above.
At the Idea Festival
I spoke this morning at the Idea Festival in Louisville, Ky., on the panel The New New Media, with Debbie Galant, Kevin Smokler and Buck Ryan. Talked about the changing media landscape and showed off a new video, Flavors of Participatory Media, which I hope to post online next week. Great to spend time with […]
At Office 2.0
Attended the reception for the first Office 2.0 conference tonight at SFMOMA. Lots of buzz about YouTube, the poster child for Web 2.0, being acquired by Google for $1.65 billion. When I went up to the registration desk, I was handed a small package and was told, “All the conference information is on the iPod.” […]
Google buys YouTube for $1.6 billion
Wow. Google agrees to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion. I’m speechless … but others aren’t. Mark Cuban at BlogMaverick: I still think Google is crazy :) ZDNet: YouTube may add to Google’s copyright worries. Silicon.com UK: YouTube ‘a good fit for Google’ Financial Times: How to get seriously rich in two easy moves New York […]