In Orlando, Buzz has some posts about his up-close encounter with Hurricane Charley. Meantime, Raven at DaytonaBeach-live.com, the Internet’s only around-the-clock English-language Internet TV station, filmed 55 minutes of Hurricane Charley ripping across Main Street in Daytona Beach on Friday night. Footage includes gas station roof and pumps being ripped off from the high winds. […]
Citizen media
Why some readers trust bloggers over journalists
An article I wrote for OJR about why some people trust bloggers more than mainstream journalists has just gone live: Transparency Begets Trust in the Ever-Expanding Blogosphere The openness of Weblogs could help explain why many readers find them more credible than traditional media. Can mainstream journalists learn from their cutting-edge cousins? And don’t miss […]
Home-brew media sites
As part of the Open Media project, we’re looking to collaborate with sites that work primarily in the area of grassroots video. In addition to participatory media sites like unmediated (see the “open media” blogroll) and efforts like Creative Commons, here are a few of the home-brew media sites that we know about. • The […]
Open Media: The Open Source Media Project
For the past few weeks, Marc Canter and I have been working on a new project called Open Media: The Open Source Media Project. It’s time to go public. The idea behind the Open Media project came from a confluence of two things: – I gave a presentation at the Digital Storytelling Festival in Sedona, […]
‘We the Media’ book party
One of the great things about living in the Bay Area is that it remains ground zero for cutting-edge technologies and social movements, including the personal media revolution (sorry, New York, but you’ll catch up). Tonight I attended Dan Gillmor’s official book release party for We the Media. (That’s Dan in a photo I took […]