I arrived in Portland, Oregon, this afternoon for tomorrow’s Podcast Hotel conference. I’ve always wanted to visit Portland, and somehow it’s never happened until today. Eric Rice picked me up at the airport and gave me a quick tour of the city. Tonight, a group of us visited a shelter where 1,000 evacuated residents of […]
Video interview with Sarah Lane of G4 TV
One week ago today I appeared on the G4 cable TV network in Los Angeles to talk about "Darknet." Never one to let an opportunity slip by, I brought my camcorder and interviewed Sarah Lane, co-host of the cool tech culture program Attack of the Show (it airs live weekdays at 4 pm PT). In […]
Looking for moderators
The nonprofit site Ourmedia.org needs more volunteer moderators. If you’ve got any spare time and want to support grassroots media, here’s your chance. (You can contact me here.) BoingBoing gives us some love today.
Ourmedia cracks the Feedster top 100
After less than five months, Ourmedia.org is No. 90 in the Feedster Top 500, which measures inbound links. That’s ahead of other aggregator sites like FlickrBlog and the Podcast Network. Not bad.
Lessons of Ourmedia
Today WorldChanging has an excellent writeup on, and analysis of the potentials of, Ourmedia. By promising permanent free hosting and almost no restrictions on media, Ourmedia has the potential to become the cornerstone of an alternative media system. It’s also suggestive of where activism may go in the months and years to come. … Ourmedia […]