Just back from my third visit to the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. (I spoke there in 2006 as part of my Darknet book tour and attended last year.) Here’s my Flickr photo set of 79 photos taken at the conference, which just about doubled in attendance this year to 110,000 attendees. Photo […]
6 questions for the author of ‘Be the Media’
David Mathison on ‘the emerging media model of abundance’ Since last spring, David Mathison has been barnstorming the country, bringing the message of grassroots, accessible, citizen-based media to would-be journalists, filmmakers, musicians, podcasters, independent business people — anyone with an interest in creating media. David’s book Be the Media: How to Create and Accelerate Your […]
Videoblogging as ‘a life-altering experience’
I used to be heavily involved in the videoblogging movement back when video on the Web was just starting out in late 2004. I was one of the first 50 members of the Yahoo Videoblogging Group (now about 3,000 members) and launched Ourmedia, the first free video hosting and sharing site, in March 2005.
Video creation and sharing went mainstream in 2006, so much so that Mashable reports YouTube Is the Top Social Media Innovation of the Decade.
Transitioning to a digital news world
Transitioning from a print to a digital news world from JD Lasica on Vimeo. If I were starting out in journalism today, I’d probably opt to work for a Web-based publication — or start my own — rather than learn the ropes at a newspaper. Because those ropes are becoming increasingly frayed. We’ve been checking […]
Social Media Week expands to six cities
Rachel Sklar, Rachelle Hruska and Anastasia Liapis at last February’s Social Media Week. SF, London, Berlin to be part of wide-ranging global teach-in Spent an hour on a conference call this morning where it was announced that Social Media Week, inaugurated last February in New York, will expand to include San Francisco, London, Berlin, Toronto […]