I’m at iSummit, Content That Pays, a new media conference in Toronto with about 400 media execs and members of the technology community. I’m speaking on the We Media panel in a couple of hours with moderator Barnaby Marshall, Matt Mullenweg of WordPress, David Jacobson of PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Bob Young, founder of LuLu. This morning, […]
The online video revolution
I just remembered: I was out of town so forgot to blog this front-page story in Thursday’s San Francisco Chronicle: Online video sites blend the bizarre with the mundane to reshape visual entertainment. (Photo: Chad Hurley (left) and Steve Chen started YouTube when they realized how difficult it was to exchange dinner party videos. ) […]
Talking with the Times
One of the most glaring lapses in the world of online newspapers over the past decade has been the New York Times’ refusal to allow readers to contact the writer or editor of a story. Well, the digital revolution moves on. Today public editor Byron Calame (above) revealed that clicking on a blue-linked byline will […]
Mash-ups showcase
One of the coolest events at the South by Southwest Music Festival came on March 15 during a mash-up event sponsored by Outhink and IODA, the Independent Online Distribution Alliance. (By the way, regular readers know that I don’t subscribe to the common blogger propensity for ignoring any event older than 24 or 48 hours […]
Meeting Mayor Newsom and the high-speed crowd
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom at the FirstMile conference in San Diego. (Photo by J.D. Lasica) Joaquin Alvarado, Director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet at San Francisco State University, invited Ourmedia to attend FirstMile, an important young conference at UC San Diego, so I flew down for the day. This was a high-powered […]