Eli Spector of MediaMobz — the new video production marketplace that I’m helping out on — points to a new citizen media site geared to youth culture: Vimby, short for Video In My Backyard. The site showcases video and photos taken in backyards across the nation. The site encourages contributors to “help us uncover what’s […]
Citizen media
Citizen expression
BubbleShare: Share photos – Play some Online Games. Friday evening, I was visited by Ignacio Escribano, founder of the Argentinian citizen media site igooh. That’s his slide show, above. Igooh is a vertical site that’s funded by Latin America’s most prestigious newspaper, La Nación, though Ignacio gets to run it with virtually no oversight by […]
Takeaways from Future of Media Summit
Didn’t take notes during last night’s Future of Media Summit in Mountain View, Calif. As usual, the connections in the audience were as interesting as the conversation on stage. (If a podcast goes up, I’ll let you know.) About 150 people took part in Sydney and another 50 Stateside. Disappointing that in 2008, the videoconferencing […]
Speaking at Future of Media Summit
Two years ago I wrote about attending an interesting new trans-ocean conversation about media trends called the Future of Media Summit. Held along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, it featured Craig Newmark of craiglist, Chris Anderson talking about his new book The Long Tail, and a number of speakers in Sydney hooked up by an […]
Miro, the democratic media player
Miro, the democratic media player from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s an 11-minute video interview I conducted with Nicholas Reville, co-founder and executive director of the Participatory Culture Foundation, maker of Miro at getmiro.com. Miro’s a cool application that lets you watch and subscribe to millions of channels of content created by us (any video […]