At the International Citizen Reporters’ Forum in Seoul a week ago, I conducted this 11-minute video interview with Michael Weiss, co-founder and CEO of Scoop, Israel’s first citizen media news site. Among all the sites I saw in depth at the forum for the first time, Scoop impressed me the most. (Ourmedia page | […]
Citizen media
A citizen reporter from Nepal
At the International Citizen Reporters’ Forum in Seoul a week ago, I made friends with Bhuwan Thapaliya, a citizen reporter for the South Korean news site OhmyNews and a poet from Nepal. Here, on Muui Island in South Korea, he discusses the situation in Nepal and the global citizen media movement. (Ourmedia page | watch […]
Joe Lambert on digital storytelling
I had put off posting this interview I conducted with Joe Lambert, co-founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley, Calif., a while back because it’s the most poorly lit interview I’ve ever done (which is a shame, because the twilight light was amazing just an hour earlier). But I’ve long admired Joe, and […]
Video report from South Korea
Here’s a short video I made on Muui Island in South Korea at the International Citizen Reporters’ Forum put on by the South Korean citizen news site OhmyNews. (Ourmedia page | watch video) Also from the OhmyNews Citizen Reporters’ Forum: Here are videocasts of nine sessions at the forum. Click on Session 1 — […]
When users pick the top stories
Gregory Lamb in today’s Christian Science Monitor: What is today’s top story online? Click here to decide. Websites apply ‘social networking’ to the news, letting users prioritize what’s important. Excerpt: “I think people will flock to sites like Digg to supplement their traditional news diets,” writes JD Lasica, cofounder and head of Ourmedia.org, in an […]