Blogger-author Kevin Smokler relates: I recently got a call from the publicist of Beach Blanket Babylon, which has been running at Club Fugazi in North Beach [in San Francisco] since Jesus was a pup. They’re dying to get more natives, more young people, more tech savvy folk to come see the show. So based on […]
Citizen media
Citizens reporters forum
Last June, Oh Yeon Ho, founder and CEO of the pioneering South Korean online news publication OhmyNews, welcomed a global gathering of citizens media representatives to Seoul. This July 12-15, OhmyNews is doing it again, with a kicker: They’re paying for round-trip air fare and deluxe hotel accommodations for three representatives from Ourmedia. (I’ll be […]
The do-it-yourself video revolution
Today’s San Francisco Chronicle: Video bloggers claim spotlight. Online diaries looking a lot like television. Headline aside — online video and videoblogs decidedly do not look like television — Ellen Lee nicely captures some of the currents of the online video revolution, led by people like my friends Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson, pictured above, […]
JD on user-generated video
In today’s edition of CNN’s Digital Life podcast, CNN Headline News anchor Renay San Miguel talks with me about Hollywood and user-generated video on the web. Play MP3 Audio. | Subscribe to the podcast.
Videos from Santa Barbara forum
Here are the video interviews I conducted last week at the UC Santa Barbara Forum on Digital Transitions, which I just posted over at my Real People Network videoblog. • Josh Silver (above), executive director of FreePress.net, discusses the grassroots effort to reform the media. (ourmedia page | m4v video) • Angela Beesley, co-founder of […]