Looks like Paul Saffo, head of the Institute for the Future, has embraced the term I coined in Darknet: the personal media revolution. >From Sunday’s San Jose Merc: The new thing is the personal media revolution. The world of the consumer is over. So what’s next is an economy where the line between buying and […]
Tracking your children’s whereabouts
Michael Langberg takes a look at new location-based services that let parents track their children’s whereabouts. the latest, Verizon’s Chaperone, launched Monday. For those who want to look into these, here are five cell phone tracking companies.
Vloggercon roundup
Update: Here’s my Flickr photo set of the event, which was top notch. I’d already heard the news that Robert Scoble was leaving Microsoft for a VP post at PodTech, so that didn’t come as a bolt from the blue. I’ll be posting video interviews with the folks from AskaNinja and 88Slide in a couple […]
Unveiling the Ourmedia Learning Center and Open Media Directory
Ourmedia is proud to announce the unveiling of the Personal Media Learning Center as well as the Open Media Directory. The Learning Center is an ongoing project with a simple aim: to help people engage in the participatory media movement by showing them how to create videoblogs, podcasts, screencasts, digital stories and other emerging media […]
Vloggercon this weekend
I’ve been looking forward to the Vloggercon videoblogging conference for months now. I’m on the organizing committee for this second gathering of the vlogging tribe. It’ll be held Saturday and Sunday in San Francisco. (Sorry, sold out.) Here’s the schedule. Sunday I’ll be moderating a panel on Oral History and Digital Storytelling with Susan Kitchens, […]