Wow, just got out of the Open Media Developers Summit at NYU in Greenwich Village. About 70 developers, filmmakers, citizens media advocates and other creative people came together, exchanged ideas, and agreed to continue the conversation. Ourmedia received an extraordinarily warm reception there. I’m in a taxi as I write this (don’t think it’s wired […]
Citizen media
Tools for citizen journalists
I just received an email from the wonderful Micki Krimmel of Participant Productions, the organization behind the release of the new George Clooney movie “Good Night, and Good Luck,” and this week’s release of “North Country,” starring Charlize Theron (above). I saw a preview screening of “North Country” in Berkeley last night and liked it, […]
Blinkx: A citizen journalism moment
Just got back from the daylong Getting Ready for Prime Time: Online Video and the Future of Television conference in Berkeley, CA. Wanted to blog from the event, but the wi-fi was iffy. I experienced a citizen journalism moment at mid-day when I received an email about Blinkx TV. If you go to the Blinkx […]
A BBC reporter on citizens media
I interviewed the talented and extremely perceptive BBC technology reporter Jo Twist about the personal media revolution when we attended Gnomedex. Here’s the 8-minute video interview in MPEG-4. (Ourmedia page | watch video) Technorati tags: personal media, grassroots media, citizens media, citizen journalism, Gnomedex, BBC, HonorTagJournalism
Cybil Weigel on amateur filmmaking
When I was down in LA a couple of weeks back, I interviewed my friend, the remarkably talented filmmaker Cybil Weigel, about her latest work in music video, grassroots filmmaking, and her Embeddedin.la project. It’s seven minutes long, 25MB, in MPEG-4. (Ourmedia page | watch video)