Beginning today, and for the next two weeks, the venerable pioneering online community the WELL will be bandying about the ideas set out in my book Darknet about digital rights, fair use, Hollywood and emerging forms of grassroots media. They do this with authors’ books about twice a month. It’s taking place here — and […]
Create your own TV channel
We at Ourmedia are big supporters of the efforts by Participatoryculture.org to create a free, open-source platform for Internet television. They’ve come a big step closer to that vision this week with the release of DTV: Internet TV on Your Mac. As the site says: DTV is a new, free and open-source platform for internet […]
EFF announces contest winners
I was a judge, along with Susan Crawford, Mike Godwin, Xeni Jardin, and Ernest Miller, in a contest marking the Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s 15th anniversary. The EFF held a Blog-a-thon to mark the occasion, inviting people to write about what digital rights means to them, and how they became active in the movement that the […]
Citizens do media for themselves
The wonderful Jo Twist, technology reporter for BBC News (whom I met at Gnomedex), has a writeup about Ourmedia: Citizens do media for themselves. Excerpt: There is a big transition happening between traditional, top down media and bubble-up, grassroots, emerging media,” says JD Lasica, co-founder of Ourmedia.org, a finalist in the e-inclusion category of the […]
Thumbs up for Current TV
I’ve been super-busy so haven’t given the launch of Current TV as much attention as it deserves. The Al Gore-led network has exceeded my expectations so far. Current TV is to the current youth generation what MTV was to the ’80s generation. It may not ultimately have the same impact, but I think it will […]