I had misplaced the url to this interview I conducted with Christina Pikas, contributing editor of the well-regarded ResourceShelf blog. Here’s Part 1: A Conversation with OurMedia Co-Founder J.D. Lasica And Part 2. Excerpt: RS: What do you mean by “personal media revolution”? JD: For decades, media was all about big printing presses or broadcast […]
Conference lineup
Here are some of the events I’ll be attending over the next two weeks: Webzine 2005 Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 24-25, noon-6 pm both days An exhibition, forum and celebration of independent online publishing. Where: Swedish-American Hall (above Cafe DuNord), 2174 Market St., San Francisco Cost: Day Pass – $13; two-day pass – $22 Duke University Symposium […]
Ourmedia turns 6 months old
Ourmedia.org, the nonprofit citizens media site, turns 6 months old today (we launched March 21). To help celebrate, I made an 11-minute video about mash-ups and fair use in the digital age. More details at Darknet.com. (Ourmedia page | play video)
Review of Ray Kurzweil’s ‘The Singularity is Near’
It’s a good thing summer is over, because Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is anything but a beach book. One of the most important thinkers of our time, Kurzweil has followed up his earlier works — most notably The Age of Spiritual Machines — with a work of startling breadth […]
Cybil Weigel on amateur filmmaking
When I was down in LA a couple of weeks back, I interviewed my friend, the remarkably talented filmmaker Cybil Weigel, about her latest work in music video, grassroots filmmaking, and her Embeddedin.la project. It’s seven minutes long, 25MB, in MPEG-4. (Ourmedia page | watch video)