IBL News (Spain): Social media and citizen journalism now on your iPhone. Excerpt: Mobile devices are clearly the platform for citizen newsgathering, and an iPhone application is a logical funnel. Soon people will be able to broadcast anything live from the street; in a way, individuals will become walking televisions. Last week, CBS Mobile released […]
Citizen media
The power of personal media
Spoke this morning at Streaming Media West in San Jose on the panel "The Power of Personal Media" along with Scott Kabat, Director of Marketing, Pure Digital, Irina Slutsky, Founder, Producer, GETV, Schlomo Rabinowitz, Video Producer, Echoplex, and moderator Chris Brogan. We covered a lot of ground, including the changes in online video in the past […]
iamnews: A global DIY newsroom
As one of the very early members of the Online News Association, I’ve attended my share of ONA conferences over the years. This year, I wasn’t able to attend the annual gathering that ended in Washington, DC, over the weekend. Instead, I spent most of last weekend at TechCrunch50, a technology conference in San Francisco […]
Interview with pro-Tibet videobloggers in hiding
Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing TV interviews my friends and videoblogging pioneers Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson while they were in hiding after videotaping some pro-Tibet demonstrators in Beijing during the Olympics. They just returned to the U.S. today. Related: Mark Glaser at MediaShift has the exclusive story explaining how Reporters Without Borders pulled off a […]
Should advocacy organizations do journalism?
Fascinating discussion by Dan Gillmor and others recently at the Center for Citizen Media blog: Helping the Almost-Journalists Do Journalism. Excerpts: The people who’ve done the best reporting on this scandal [the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay] have not, for the most part, been working for major media outfits. They’ve been working for that […]