(Photo of Jerry Roberts, left, former executive editor of the Santa Barbara News Press, with Dan Gillmor.) I spent the day today as a guest and participant at Newspaper 2.0, a workshop put on by Doc Searls at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Months in the making, the gathering drew 30 to 35 locals […]
Citizen media
Wrapping up WeMedia
Very cool time Thursday night, starting with a video presentation with Christine Gambito, one of the most popular video artists on YouTube, followed by me, Steve Rosenbaum of Magnify Media and three students from the University of Miami showing a Webisode series they created. We ran out of time — I didn’t even have a […]
At the WeMedia conference
I’m here at the University of Miami at the WeMedia conference put on by iFOCOS, the Institute for the Connected Society (formerly the Media Center). Fascinating mix of people here. Here’s the program. There’s a live chat (top right of the conference home page) today and tomorrow. Last night I attended a bloggers dinner organized […]
Orato: Canadian citizen journalism site
Back in 1999, I wrote about the first-person narrative news magazine Orato.com, out of New Zealand. In 2001 I followed up with a report about the burst bubble in content sites, with Orato struggling to find funding. Well, now comes word that Orato.com is alive and well and publishing as a citizen journalism site out […]
Wikipedia on Elisabeth Shue
This is pretty cool: Wikipedia came across my photo collection of actress Elisabeth Shue on Flickr and asked me to change the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license on one of them to a CC Attribution license so that they could use it. I did, of course. Here’s the entry.