I spent a half hour on the phone this afternoon with Doug Kaye, the brilliant and talented workhorse behind IT Conversations. We’d like to bring you into that conversation. Doug has been a longstanding participant in the soon-to-launch Ourmedia project (docs here) as a member of our wiki. We agreed that while other forms of […]
Citizen media
ourmedia: ‘a free content sharing’ system
Robin Good has some kind words about ourmedia on his Masterofnewmedia blog. Under the Ourmedia flag a small group of brave and visionary independent thinkers, technologists and change agents has gotten together to create what will very soon be the largest public open access archive for all grassroots creative multimedia content. This is very, very […]
ourmedia: a call for entries
We’re about a month away from the beta launch of ourmedia.org. (See the item below.) The goal is to create a global repository of shared grassroots media. We have a number of media items or collections in hand, but we need more to fill out the site. Here’s our first pass at material that have […]
ourmedia needs a tagline
We’re only a few weeks away from the beta website for ourmedia.org, which I announced here when it was still called the Open Media project. We’ve made remarkable progress in the past two months, working in a wiki to tackle issues related to the law, technology, and cultural values attached to content sharing. We’ve made […]
ourmedia vs. commercial photo sites
In the Wall Street Journal the other day, Walter Mossberg had this: