Ourmedia launched one year ago today! Little did we realize how influential we’d become in helping to spur the citizens media movement. We now have 87,000 members and about 150,000 works of personal media that people have uploaded — video, audio, photos and more. Our first year was about giving people the power to share […]
74 photos of SXSW Music
Here is a Flickr set of 74 photos I took at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas, last week. From top: Morrissey, kd lang, Kris Kristofferson, Chhom Nimol of Dengue Fever and some indie music fans. I posted the SXSW Interactive photo set earlier. Technorati tags: music, SXSW Music, photos , SXSW […]
A night at the Recording Academy Honors ceremony
Just got back from The Recording Academy Honors 2006, the annual event of the San Francisco chapter of The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), best known for producing the Grammy Awards. My first time at a NARAS event — several hundred people were dressed to impressed at the Westin St. Francis in […]
24 photos of Amanda Congdon
Because I took several photos of Amanda Congdon, host of the breakout Internet program “Rocketboom,” at SXSW this past week, I decided to put some earlier shots online, taken at the Symposium on Social Architecture at Harvard in November 2006. So, here’s a 24-photo set of Amanda. Technorati tags: amanda, videoblogging, amanda congdon , rocketboom, […]
The right to photograph in public
The Sunday New York Times recounts a recent significant legal ruling upholding the right to photograph people in public places: The Theater of the Street, the Subject of the Photograph. This is an important article, with application to the grassroots media world, so I’ll quote from it at length. Excerpt: In 1999 Philip-Lorca diCorcia set […]