J.D. Lasica, blogger, author, and journalist, goes On the Record…Online with host Eric Schwartzman at the New Communications Forum in Palo Alto, Calif., in this podcast conducted last week to discuss working as a journalist in the mainstream media, citizen journalism and citizen media, and the effects the new media have upon traditional journalism.
Citizen media
When we become the media
Over at the Participant.net See It Now group blog, I posted this: I’ve been spending a lot of time with young, Net-savvy users lately. Will these young people join traditional news organizations, or will they take a different route to participating in the media? Increasingly, the answer is the latter. Fewer young people are looking […]
Witness putting tools for empowerment online
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been having discussions with the good folks at Witness.org about how Witness and Ourmedia could work together. Witness has announced an ambitious plan to build a set of publishing tools that would let those in repressive or abusive conditions shine a spotlight on what’s happening in their countries. […]
Moblogged photo nominated TIME best photo
Michael Tippett of NowPublic notes that a ‘moblogged’ photo was nominated as a best photo of the year by Time magazine — the emblematic shot taken by Adam Stacey with his camera phone minutes after a terrorist bomb went off in the London subway. It’s pretty stunning that Gamma would reproduce the image without Stacey’s […]
Personal media: A visual collage
I made a 4-minute collage of photographs and video in a new piece titled Personal media: A visual collage. It’s set to copyrighted music by Alex Woodard (used with permission), with photos taken by me and also drawn from PDPhoto.org, Ourmedia and Flickr. Vlogging superstars Michael Verdi and Steve Garfield make an appearance. Check it […]