I just got back from the first Current.tv meetup in San Francisco. About 45 or so folks turned out at a Haight Street cafe; it was so crowded, we walked down the street and took over the Red Victorian B&B. Finally got a chance to meet Robin Sloan, late of the Poynter and now a […]
Google’s foray into video
I just uploaded my first (test) video to Google under its new video upload program, so we’ll see how that goes. The process was pretty similar in some ways to Ourmedia‘s upload process. They ask for less metadata, but it’s interesting — and I think disappointing — that designating rights isn’t a part of the […]
At the Institute for the Future retreat
I spent this afternoon at the Institute for the Future‘s 30th Ten Year Forecast Retreat at the Claremont in Berkeley, where the theme was grassroots economies, the sharing economy and sustainability. If you don’t know the Institute for the Future, you should. Paul Saffo and crew have been doing a top-notch job for years looking […]
I’m interviewed on NPR
Bob Garfield has an insightful new piece for NPR’s On the Media on what he calls the chaos theory of big media. Jeff Jarvis (briefly), Om Malik (briefly) and yours truly (briefly) are among those interviewed. See An Impending Period of Transitional Chaos for Media. I (and others) have been writing about this for some […]
Slate on the Archive and Ourmedia
Slate writer Paul Boutin interviewed me Wednesday for a piece on Brewster Kahle and his Internet Archive: Brewster Kahle made a copy of the Internet. Now, he wants your files. Last Friday Paul attended one of Brewster’s famous Friday afternoon brown bag lunches, where we go around the table and everyone discusses what’s happening in […]