Highlights and takeaways from the citizens media summit in San Francisco on May 15, 2005: Pithiest quote: Joan Walsh, editor of Salon.com: “We don’t want to become old media at [age] 10. We still view ourselves too much as a print magazine on the Web.” Most exciting new tool that works: participatoryculture.org‘s open-source video platform […]
Citizen media
Citizens media weekend
Good news: We’ve just moved our citizens media social gathering to a larger venue on Friday. It’s a two-day gathering, so here are the details: Friday the 13th Time: 6-9 pm Place: Varnish Fine Art Gallery, 77 Natoma St. (between 1st and 2nd streets and Mission and Howard) in SF’s SOMA. Check out their website. […]
Current TV meetup
I just got back from the first Current.tv meetup in San Francisco. About 45 or so folks turned out at a Haight Street cafe; it was so crowded, we walked down the street and took over the Red Victorian B&B. Finally got a chance to meet Robin Sloan, late of the Poynter and now a […]
Citizens media and Ourmedia
The most interesting thing about citizens media, of course, is that you never know what we’re going to produce. What’s apparent is that people want to take part in media — and to take it apart, remix it, annotate it, recirculate it. Reclaim their place in the ancient craft of storytelling. They want to turn […]
Whole lotta love from blogland
I was out all day at a wonderful digital storytelling workshop put on by Leslie Rule of KQED in SF, who happens to also be a member of the Ourmedia Advisory Board. (Photos of our board members should be restored soon; yet another alpha glitch.) Michael Bazeley in today’s San Jose Mercury News: New Web […]