I’m a supporter of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, so it was great to see hundreds of people jam its headquarters in San Francisco’s Mission district on Sunday night to celebrate the nonprofit digital-rights organization’s 15th birthday. Met lots of friends there, including Brewster Kahle, Mary Hodder, Scott Beale, Jon Noring, Eric Jacobs, Jerry Michalski, Gary […]
Highlights from ‘Television is going online’ conference
A few takeaways from today’s Getting Ready for Prime Time: Online Video and the Future of Television conference in Berkeley, CA: Interesting tidbit: Someone pointed out that the Minnow — the name of the boat in “Gilligan’s Island” — was a tongue-in-cheek reference to Newton Minnow, the FCC commissioner who in 1961 described television as […]
Blinkx: A citizen journalism moment
Just got back from the daylong Getting Ready for Prime Time: Online Video and the Future of Television conference in Berkeley, CA. Wanted to blog from the event, but the wi-fi was iffy. I experienced a citizen journalism moment at mid-day when I received an email about Blinkx TV. If you go to the Blinkx […]
Videos of Tony Kahn, Mur Lafferty
I enjoyed spending Tuesday and Wednesday at Duke University in Durham, NC, for the first academic Symposium on Podcasting. I’m getting burned out a bit on conference blogging (especially when I’m speaking at the event), so I did some videoblogging service journalism. Here are two short videos (really enjoyed chatting with Tony and Mur); more […]
A BBC reporter on citizens media
I interviewed the talented and extremely perceptive BBC technology reporter Jo Twist about the personal media revolution when we attended Gnomedex. Here’s the 8-minute video interview in MPEG-4. (Ourmedia page | watch video) Technorati tags: personal media, grassroots media, citizens media, citizen journalism, Gnomedex, BBC, HonorTagJournalism