Here’s a 6-minute video interview with Lauren Gelman, associate director of Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, about copyright, fair use and grassroots media. Conducted at the recent BlogHer conference in San Jose, Calif. (Ourmedia page | watch video) Format: MPEG-4 (iPod compatible); 16.1MB; 6:29; Ourmedia page | watch video; video quality: **** (out of […]
Citizen media
Mark Cuban’s Sharesleuth: Teetering on ethical edge?
Mark Glaser’s latest piece just went up on PBS MediaShift, this time a look at Mark Cuban’s latest maverick project, Sharesleuth.com. The site’s editor Chris Carey (formerly of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) investigates sketchy business practices at companies and digs up dirt on them mainly from public sources. The business model for Sharesleuth is unusual […]
Bloggers uncover manipulated news photos
NY Times: Bloggers Drive Inquiry on How Altered Images Saw Print. [Adnan] Hajj, a Lebanese photographer based in the Middle East, may not be familiar to many newspaper readers. But thanks to the swift justice of the Internet, he has been charged, tried and convicted of improperly altering photographs he took for Reuters. The pictures […]
On NPR’s ‘Talk of the Nation’ today
I’m about to go on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation. Today’s hourlong program is about war news: the conflict in the Middle East and the Iraq war, and I’ll be coming in to discuss citizen journalism and user-created videos from the scenes of the carnage. I’ll post a link to the podcast when […]
Photos and video from BlogHer
Here are some final photos of BlogHer in a Flickr photo set. That’s a bad photo of me with Arianna Huffington at top; Halley Suitt in a smaller image. As for videos, here are three, with more coming in mid- to late August: From top: • Jory des Jardins, co-founder of BlogHer, talked about the […]