I was under the weather last week; otherwise, I would have had these up sooner. Here are the last seven short video interviews I conducted at BlogHer 10 days ago. These are all worth a look. (By the way, 83 percent of the attendees were women): Halley Suitt, the charming, funny and wise proprietor of […]
Citizen media
‘Let’s forget about citizen journalism’
Neil McIntosh, an editor at the UK’s Guardian, writes: Let’s forget about citizen journalism. McIntosh cites approvingly this comment on another blog: “Weblogs and flickr can complement traditional journalism, but they can’t supplant it.” Well, that’s absolutely true. And it’s what Dan Gillmor and other proponents of the idea have been saying for years and […]
Eleanor’s first stint as a citizen journalist
I’ve been doing a bit of citizen journalism lately (Dan Gillmor’s trying to shake out the Drupal bugs at Bayosphere; so far, my video there hasn’t shown up). Today, the tables are turned. Citizen journalist Eleanor Kruszewski, an incredibly smart technologist who just began a new job at Yahoo!, interviewed me at the Palace Hotel […]
My citizen journalism reports on Bayosphere
I spent all day down in San Jose at IBM’s Almaden Research Center doing citizen journalism reports for Dan Gillmor and his Bayosphere site. Here are my two writeups: The future of portable computing New Paradigms, part 2 It was a fun, enervating and educational day — but also a bit exhausting. Bayosphere is a […]
Two videos on grassroots media
Here are two short video interviews I conducted at Gnomedex in Seattle one week ago. Podcaster and videoblogger Eric Rice talks about Muscling Your Way into the Media. Ourmedia media page | video Attorney-blogger Denise Howell talks about the intersection of grassoorts media and the law. Ourmedia media page | video Technorati tags: Gnomedex, Gnomedex2005, […]