At Thursday night’s introductory panel at the BlogOn conference … Someone (perhaps John Roberts of CNET) said: “RSS is a Napster for ideas.” Tony Perkins: “I think this is the biggest thing that’s ever happened [in media]. Just as big media was bottoming out, bloggers came in and said, Wait a minute, we have something […]
Citizen media
‘We Media’ in Chinese
At Hypergene, Shayne Bowman reports that the We Media report he wrote with Chris Willis (I was the editor) has been getting a lot of traffic of late, thanks to its translation into Chinese by BlogChina. It’s been getting a lot of renewed attention in tech circles, too: Came up at AlwaysOn, and in conjunction […]
Why the revolution will not be televised
I hadn’t planned on attending AlwaysOn: The Innovation Summit today at Stanford (I’ll be here tomorrow), but when I heard Joe Trippi, former campaign manager for Howard Dean, would be speaking, I popped on down. (There’s a live webcast for the rest of today and Thursday.) The panel with AlwaysOn’s Tony Perkins moderating and Trippi […]
Open-source book editing
In today’s San Jose Mercury News, Michael Bazeley has this: Authors open texts online for others to edit. The article is based on interviews with me and Christian Crumlish about open-source book editing. Michael asked about both my Darknet blog and Darknet wiki, where readers have helped edit the upcoming book Darknet: Remixing the Future […]
Wrapup of Digital Storytelling Festival
Got back last evening from the 7th annual Digital Storytelling Festival in Sedona, Arizona. Ordinarily I would have filed longer posts while I was there, given the terrific wifi setup, but I was so taken in by the presentations that I decided to spend the time between sessions talking with other storytelling aficionados rather than […]