Before I finished reading the first paragraph of this latest entry on the American Press Institute Media Center’s morph blog, I knew who’d penned it: Nashville blogger Terry Heaton, who’s trying to drag TV stations into the 21st century. Terry writes: J.D. Lasica, author of Darknet: Hollywood’s War Against the Digital Generation, calls the citizens […]
Edge TV
The other day on the Darknet blog I commented about Steve Levy’s piece in Newsweek about the future of television, something I go into in great deal in Darknet. I call it Edge TV rather than IPTV (which refers to the distribution mechanism), on-demand TV (which refers to consumers’ behavior) or file-serve television (the techie […]
Blogger book tour
Inspired by Kevin Smokler, who not only invented the Virtual Book Tour but rode on the VBT bus this week as editor of the new book Bookmark Now, I’ll be coordinating a Blogger Book Tour the week of June 6-10 for Darknet: Hollywood’s War Against the Digital Generation. Bloggers can choose any approach — here […]
Interviewed on PCTV
Two weeks ago I was interviewed about Ourmedia and Darknet on PCTV, aka Peralta Colleges Television, a very cool community cable network that televises in the San Francisco East Bay. The show airs today. In the 12-minute segment, I appear with Robin Sloan of Current.tv, the new youth-oriented cable network that’s launching in August. The […]
Meeting with Open Media founder
Had lunch today at Yank Sing in San Francisco with my Ourmedia partner, Marc Canter; Doug Kaye of IT Conversations; ZDNet columnist Steve Gillmor, Noah Glass, co-founder of Odeo; and founder Mike Homer (former senior vp at Netscape and AOL) and Wayne Dyer of the nonprofit Open Media Network, which went beta a month ago […]