Here’s an English-language interview with Gary Wang, founder of Toodou, a new user-generated, interactive, multimedia content website in China that sounds remarkably like Ourmedia.org. They have 120,000 registered users and tons of podcasts.
Videoblogs vs. video podcasts
A lot of people have been using the terms videoblogging and video podcasts interchangeably. There are no hard and fast rules, but members of the Yahoo! videoblogging list had some thoughts on the topic today. Steve Garfield: “When some people first look at videoblogging they just see videos on web pages. It’s more than that. […]
Mashing up the personal media revolution
I’ve been under the gun so didn’t get a chance to blog about a groundbreaking experiment I participated in on Friday afternoon at Ex’pression College for Digital Arts in Emeryville, east of San Francisco. Videoblogger Schlomo Rabinowitz, Outhink CEO Dave Toole, Creative Commons general counsel Mia Garlick and I spent a couple of hours on […]
Jarah makes the front page
Susan Kitchens points out that Jarah Euston, founder-editor of Fresno Famous (with whom I did a video interview at BlogHer, see above), made the front page of Sunday’s LA Times for this story: Fresno’s Brain Drain Has Left the Town Smarting. Young people with good educations are leaving the struggling southern San Joaquin Valley in […]
Puppy in da house!
We just got a puppy! — a springer spaniel/cocker spaniel mix. She has emerald eyes, a chocolate brown coat, long eye lashes, and a propensity to nip at my fingers and tennis shoes. Only 6 weeks old. Now we have to name her.