Rupert of Twittervlog.tv writes on the Yahoo! videoblogging list the other day: There are a number of reasons I’ve never loved YouTube: that intrusive watermark the inability to download videos without doing a workaround the site’s refusal to allow Creative Commons licenses generally crappy transcoding Hmm. Rupert and I have a lot in common. Rupert […]
Who killed the Online Journalism Review and will it live again?
I wrote scores of columns and articles for the once high-flying independent new media journal, the Online Journalism Review, a publication of USC’s Annenberg School, from 1998 to 2005. For the past several years, the quality had tapered off as funds for free-lance articles were dramatically cut (which is why I left). Still, it was […]
The next newsroom in Second Life
At PBS’s IdeaLab blog, Chris O’Brien has this: The Next Newsroom in Second Life.
Pop17: surveying Internet pop culture
Sarah Austin on Pop17 from JD Lasica on Vimeo. In this 5-minute hi-def interview, Sarah Austin talks about her popular new pop culture site, Pop17.com, which launched in February. It chiefly focuses on Web sensations — grassroots efforts that make a splash — without the trashy, celeb-worshipping aspects of TMZ.com or Perez Hilton. I’ll be […]
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
The Center for Social Media at American University’s School of Communication has just released an important new report: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video, which builds on the Center’s findings from its Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User- Generated Video report. (The report might well have been called: How […]