Heading to the Portable Media Expo — largely a celebration of podcasting — in Ontario, outside LA, on Thursday. I’m speaking Friday on a panel about citizens media with John Furrier of Podtech and Mike Dunn of Hearst Interactive. Should see a lot of familiar faces: Doug Kaye, Jason Calacanis, Gerd Leonhard, Derrick Oien, Phil […]
H2O playlists
I’ll be leading a session next Tuesday at the Symposium on Social Architecture at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center. Which was a good motivation to finally publish the video I conducted when I last visited earlier this summer. Molly Krause, leader of the H2O project, explained the benefits of playlists in academic and other learning […]
Creative Commons inducts Jimmy Wales
Just got back from tonight’s Creative Commons party, at which Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was brought aboard as a member of the nonprofit’s board. It was my first time meeting Jimmy in person, and I was thrilled to give him a copy of “Darknet” and to discuss possible collaboration down the road between the Wikimedia […]
Media bloggers Statement of Principles
Just got off a conference call as a board director of the Media Bloggers Association. For several months now, I’ve been working with our Standards team to devise a set of guidelines for members of our organization (not all bloggers, mind you). As I mentioned on the call, the MBA’s members had strong feelings on […]
‘Survivor’: Photos from the real Guatemala
I’ve been meaning for a few weeks now to post photos of my trip to Guatemala a few years ago to Flickr, so here’s a set of 15 of my favorite shots. I’ll admit to watching CBS’s Survivor: Guatemala, chiefly for the setting rather than the contrived dramatic elements of the “reality TV” series. Here’s […]