Just heard about a new citizen journalism site that launched earlier this month: Allvoices.com, which weaves together traditional and new media sources to create a global forum for sharing news, videos, images and blogs will end its beta version and officially launch. From the announcement: Allvoices provides eyewitness news and perspective that is free from […]
Vimby: Video In My Backyard
Eli Spector of MediaMobz — the new video production marketplace that I’m helping out on — points to a new citizen media site geared to youth culture: Vimby, short for Video In My Backyard. The site showcases video and photos taken in backyards across the nation. The site encourages contributors to “help us uncover what’s […]
Dana Loesch: Making money with your blog
In this 3-minute video interview, Dana Loesch of Mamalogues.com discusses the “More to Monetization than Advertising” panel she participated on at BlogHer in San Francisco.
Citizen expression
BubbleShare: Share photos – Play some Online Games. Friday evening, I was visited by Ignacio Escribano, founder of the Argentinian citizen media site igooh. That’s his slide show, above. Igooh is a vertical site that’s funded by Latin America’s most prestigious newspaper, La Nación, though Ignacio gets to run it with virtually no oversight by […]
Jory on BlogHer2008
Wrapping up BlogHer 2008 from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a quick video interview I did with Jory Des Jardins, co-founder of BlogHer, on Saturday night as the fourth annual women bloggers’ conference was ending. Jory talks about some of the highlights of the gathering, which drew about 1,100 attendees. The lighting at the Westin […]