I’m back from Seoul, South Korea, and seriously jet-lagged (so please forgive the delay in responding to emails). Here are some final notes, which I wasn’t able to post before I left: Best citizen media site Best citizen media site I was only dimly aware of: Scoop, the first citizen media site in Israel. It […]
Citizen media
At the International Citizen Reporters’ Forum
I’m here in Seoul, South Korea, at the International Citizen Reporters’ Forum. Got in last evening after an 11-hour flight from San Francisco. About 100 participants here, from places as diverse as Cameroon, Japan, Argentina, the US, Nepal and Australia. This is my first time in Asia, believe it or not. Here are some photos […]
Outcome of the Transmission Global Online Video Forum
Ourmedia was invited to attend the Transmission Global Online Video Gathering on June 7-10 in Rome, but we couldn’t make it because it was held the same week as Vloggercon. I organized a Citizens Media Summit in San Francisco in May 2005 attended by 36 people, so I’m a softie for these kind of efforts. […]
Rethinking the economics of collaboration
In 1996 I wrote a piece in the American Journalism Review headlined Net Gain that included a passage about Steve Rosenbaum, then the brains behind MTV’s “MTV News Unfiltered.” So it was great, after nine years, to meet Steve face to face at Vloggercon on Sunday (when we both appeared on panels opposite each other). […]
Le pouvoir passe aux mains des créateurs de contenus
The French newspaper Les Echos just published a Q&A I did with a reporter there about the personal media revolution. It’s not online, but I persuaded them to send me a PDF of the page, and I uploaded it to Ourmedia. I can’t read French, but for those of you who can, have at it. […]