At the Symposium on Social Architecture at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center on Nov. 15, I put together a panel to talk about participatory media. One of the panelists was Amanda Congdon, host of Rocketboom, whom I had a terrific time talking with. "Rocketboom" is one of the breakout successes of the very young Internet […]
Citizen media
Interviewed on Evil Genius Chronicles podcast
Dave Slusher of the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast (worth listening to on the basis of the title alone) interviewed me at the Portable Media Expo down in the Southland (actually, east of LA) on Nov. 11 and just posted the episode. About halfway through I babble on about citizens media, Ourmedia, a new Learning Center, […]
Shield laws, access should extend to citizen journalists
Watched and enjoyed tonight’s “NewsHour With Jim Lehrer,” with coverage of the ongoing controversy over whether the press deserves a special privilege to protect confidential sources (yes, it does) and under what circumstances (not in every case). Here’s a transcript of the segment. Great to see Jeff Jarvis in fine form as a self-described blogger […]
Movies with a message
On Wednesday I swung by Participant Productions, the relatively young movie production company in Beverly Hills founded by former eBay president Jeff Skoll.
I just posted to Ourmedia this 8-minute video interview with the amazing Micki Krimmel, Participant’s Director of Internet Outreach. She talks about the organization’s goals and its first three films: Good Night, and Good Luck; North Country, and the upcoming Syriana, about the oil industry. (See Ourmedia page | watch video — 21.8 MB in MPEG-4 | here’s a higher-quality version in H.264, 51MB)
‘An Internet fed mostly by amateurs is frightening’
The headline of Mike Langberg’s column in today’s San Jose Mercury News says it all: ‘An Internet fed mostly by amateurs is frightening.’ He cites author-blogger Nicholas G. Carr, who doesn’t seem to understand Web 2.0 very well, and then goes off on a rant against the amateurization of the Web and the rise of […]