Spent the afternoon at Digital Storytelling & 21st Century Skills: A Summit & Gathering at KQED public television in San Francisco. Digital storytelling pioneers Denise Atchley and Leslie Rule, both on Ourmedia‘s Board of Advisors, led the sessions: Education panelists: Moderator: Leslie Rule, KQED Digital Media Center Kim Hyun-Deok Forman, Professor, San Francisco State University […]
Behold the coming Cinematic Internet
At the Intel Developer Forum Wednesday I was pulled aside and invited to interview Eric B. Kim, an Intel senior vice president and general manager of its Digital Home Group. Earlier in the day I heard Kim give a keynote talk with Patrick Barry, vice presdent of TV for Yahoo!
Kim talks about this significant new development in the 11-minute interview (above).
SeeClickFix: Get things fixed in your community
I proposed developing something very similar to this to the Knight Foundation two years ago (along with a follow-up back end) and was turned down. But somebody built it anyway. San Francisco Chronicle: SeeClickFix: Get things fixed in your community. Good news for citizen engagement: SeeClickFix.com has just arrived in San Francisco. The site, started […]
Dancing Matt Harding stumbles on Web’s true meaning
You’ve probably seen the Where the Hell Is Matt? videos — the main one has been viewed over 11 million times and the 2008 version (above) more than 9 million times. In today’s San Jose Mercury News, Mike Cassidy interviews dancing Matt Harding and writes about he has stumbled on the true meaning of the […]
Google cache on Chinese gymnast’s real age
The China Digital Times asks, How Old is [Chinese gymnast and gold medalist] He Kexin (何可欣), Really? The answer is 14 (or possibly 13), well under the age limit of 16. More importantly, the site dug out the Google cache page (above) dated November 2007 that clearly shows the girl’s age to be 13 at […]