When you’re living in a time of transition — and, Lord knows, the mediasphere today is in flux writ large — it’s hard to see the trends that are taking shape. Part of the conversation, naturally, is shaped by the language we use to describe it. When we launched Ourmedia in March 2005, our tagline […]
Citizen media
A citizen journalist from Moldova
I gave a workshop on videocasting and podcasting yesterday to a dozen students from Asia, Africa and Europe in a citizen journalism program taught by Dan Gillmor at the University of California, Berkeley. During a break, one of them, Tatiana Tibuleac from Moldova — it’s between Romania and Ukraine, if you’re wondering — was kind […]
Images and videos of the bridge collapse
A woman whose husband was killed in Wednesday’s bridge collapse (Minneapolis Star Tribune) Here’s some coverage of the tragic bridge collapse in Minneapolis. Mainstream media certainly did a better job than citizen media on this one, though the first-person accounts were harrowing. Disappointing, though, that I didn’t see a single traditional news organization offer video […]
Sari Gelser on Truthout.org
At Pixelodeon last month I had a chance to chat with Sari Gelser, news editor of Truthout.org, a distributed citizen news network that’s doing important work. Here’s our 3-minute video interview: MPEG-4 video at 640×480 | Ourmedia page Flash version on Internet Archive MPEG-4 or Flash version at 320×240 on Blip.tv
Do video producers need a model release form?
Do video producers and video bloggers need to obtain a right-of-publicity/model release form from the subjects of their videos if they plan on using the video commercially (including making money from ads)? I posed the question to San Francisco attorney Colette Vogele at the recent Web Video Summit in San Jose, and then caught up […]