After catching Steve Jobs’s salesmanship at Macworld last month, I went out and plunked down $99 at Fry’s for iLife ’06. Haven’t played with all the new features yet — iPhoto certainly looks more robust — but the chief reason for buying it was to pull together a dazzling video for some presentations I’m about […]
Amanda & ‘Rocketboom’ on ‘CSI’
Just got around to watching last night’s “CSI” on TiVo. How cool was it to see Amanda Congdon in a bogus segment that played into “CSI’s” episode about a multiple killer in Las Vegas. The Rocketboom team spoofed their appearance today in their typically lighthearted way. Taylor Barcroft posted the Rocketboom scene here (from an […]
International Digital Storytelling Conference
My friends Joe Lambert of the Center for Digital Storytelling, Daniel Meadows of Capture Wales and Karen Worcman of Brazil’s Museum of the Person (she’s on Ourmedia’s Board of Advisors) are all attending the three-day International Digital Storytelling Conference, which begins today in Melbourne, Australia. Writes Joe: As a follow-up to the 2003 BBC Digital […]
Witness putting tools for empowerment online
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been having discussions with the good folks at Witness.org about how Witness and Ourmedia could work together. Witness has announced an ambitious plan to build a set of publishing tools that would let those in repressive or abusive conditions shine a spotlight on what’s happening in their countries. […]
SXSW fever rising
Got back a little while ago from tonight’s first West Coast pre-conference party for South by Southwest, at the Minna Gallery in San Francisco. I’ll be leading a panel on darknets there on March 13. The Minna was packed tonight with 200 geeks and geek sympathizers. Among those I chatted up: Hugh Forrest, Kevin Smokler, […]