In response to this Katie Hafner piece in the NY Times announcing Corbis’s new website, which lets anyone sell photos (It’ll Be Photographer’s Choice on a Web Site From Corbis), my friend Thomas Hawk, CEO of Zooomr.com with three o’s — Thomas is a not-too-shabby photographer — has this important post: Why Corbis’ New SnapVillage […]
Citizen media
Mike Orren on what makes citizen media work
A while back I interviewed Mike Orren, editor/founder of the Dallas-based citizen media site Pegasus News. Mike offers a lot of wise advice in this 13-minute video interview in which he discusses fairness, independence and other attributes that contribute to a quality citizen media site. Formats: QuickTime/MPEG-4 Flash Windows Media Length: 13:48 Also see: Independence […]
The future of video
I’m at a gathering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, today. About 40 of us — from academia, the media, the tech world, students — are talking about the future of media, Internet television, and the statewide UCTV (University of California Television) system. UCTV and the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media […]
NewsTrust: Readers as editors
At the WeMedia conference, I interviewed Fabrice Florin about his fascinating NewsTrust.net project, where readers become involved in the editorial process by rating and commenting on news stories. (Motto: Your guide to good journalism.) The 13-minute interview was part of the Principles of Citizen Journalism project, and I haven’t had time to post it here […]
Starting your own personal radio broadcast?
Had dinner Wednesday night with Alan Levy, founder-CEO of BlogTalkRadio, one of the OnHollywood 100 award winners. I’ll post a video interview I conducted with Alan in a few days. Looks like I’ll be starting up a BlogTalkRadio radio show/podcast in June (with a colleague). Meantime, Brad Kava, in Thursday’s San Jose Mercury News, did […]