Just got back from giving a talk about Ourmedia at the Apple store in San Francisco, followed by a housewarming party thrown by Renee Blodgett. Barb Dybwad of Weblogs Inc.’s Social Software Weblog has a good rundown of tonight’s appearance at the Apple store. (Sorry I didn’t get to meet you, Barb!)
Photos of BlogHer
Just finished uploading 32 photos to Flickr, taken at the BlogHer conference in Santa Clara, Calif., July 29-30, 2005. This was by far the nicest, most engaging group of bloggers I’ve ever met. I’m honored to be designated the citizen journalist who gets to chronicle the images of the conference through photos and videos. More […]
‘Let’s forget about citizen journalism’
Neil McIntosh, an editor at the UK’s Guardian, writes: Let’s forget about citizen journalism. McIntosh cites approvingly this comment on another blog: “Weblogs and flickr can complement traditional journalism, but they can’t supplant it.” Well, that’s absolutely true. And it’s what Dan Gillmor and other proponents of the idea have been saying for years and […]
An instant Akimbo fan
You may have heard of Akimbo by now. The San Mateo, Calif., startup has been quietly making programming alliances over the past year and fine-tuning its Internet television service. I hadn’t planned on getting an Akimbo box to add to my TiVo and DVD recorder setup, chiefly because I didn’t want to have to call […]
GoingOn and Innovation Summit wrapup
Just uploaded to Ourmedia this video of the smart, amazing, terrifically talented Valerie Cunningham talking yesterday about the announcement of the coming launch of the new social networking site GoingOn. Following are my notes from yesterday’s AlwaysOn Innovation Summit at Stanford University. Tony Perkins and Marc Canter announced what I believe is a major step […]