You’ll pardon a little end-of-the-day marveling at the crazy day we just finished. Here are Ourmedia’s referral logs from Monday: 10,000 hits via slashdot today 1,020 from instapundit (a friend) 965 from gizmodo 268 from boingboing 220 from my blog 132 from deli.cio.us 125 from scripting 100 from seth godin And that’s with the site […]
Citizen media
Ourmedia is here!!
Exactly nine months ago, Marc Canter and I met up at Supernova. I mentioned to him the idea I’d been kicking around with Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive to create a grassroots media organization, site, and registry called Open Media. Turned out that Open Media was, ironically, a trademarked name. But Marc jumped at […]
Citizens media strategy session
Today a few colleagues and I began sending out invitations to a citizens media strategy session and social event. We want to be as transparent as possible about this, so here’s what’s happening: Citizens Media Strategy Session & Retreat A strategy session to explore how various citizen media movements — open source software, free culture, […]
Yes, they’re still journalists
Terrific editorial worth pointing to in today’s San Jose Mercury News: … Are bloggers journalists? The debate is not about who gets bragging rights to ink-stained wretchdom. It is about who is shielded under an important law that allows journalists to keep their sources confidential. The law is essential to a journalist’s ability to gather […]
Online video and Ourmedia
Video blogging has just busted out into the national spotlight. Heather Green in the new issue of Business Week: Online Video: The Sequel. Video blogs are proliferating, thanks to improved distribution technology, and mainstream companies are taking notice. I managed to get a plug in there for Ourmedia: Welcome to the latest Net phenomenon: video […]