It was my pleasure during the past few week to serve as a judge in the 2008 Total Recut Video Remix Challenge. After an initial vote by the public, the judges’ panel — also including Lawrence Lessig, Henry Jenkins, Mark Hosler, Alison Hanold for Pat Aufderheide, Matt Mason, Kembrew McLeod and Luminosity — reviewed eight […]
Digital culture
Fish Phone: text a fish while shopping or dining
In the Civic Engagement on the Move report that I wrote for the Aspen Institute, I included this passage: Jed Alpert, co-founder and chief executive officer of Mobile Commons, pointed to FishMS, a text service in South Africa that was set up to help consumers choose seafood with the least adverse impact on the environment. […]
Pop17: surveying Internet pop culture
Sarah Austin on Pop17 from JD Lasica on Vimeo. In this 5-minute hi-def interview, Sarah Austin talks about her popular new pop culture site, Pop17.com, which launched in February. It chiefly focuses on Web sensations — grassroots efforts that make a splash — without the trashy, celeb-worshipping aspects of TMZ.com or Perez Hilton. I’ll be […]
iJustine on her ‘lifecasting’ experience
iJustine from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At the first meeting of Intel Insiders at Intel HQ in San Jose the other day, I finally had the chance to meet Justine Ezarik, better known by her online handle, iJustine. She gained instant Internet fame (she now has thousands of friends on Facebook and Twitter) when she […]
5 grassroots organizations worth a look
I was in my element last week basking in the presence of grassroots media organizations, nonprofits and cause campaigns at the NetSquared conference. Here are some impressive efforts that I hadn’t heard much about: • Freecycle.org ("changing the world one gift at a time"). With 5,253,000 members across the globe, it’s a grassroots nonprofit movement […]