Speaking of Woices, here’s a snippet from the latest NAMAC newsletter about Voices: VOICES offers young people in Tucson [Arizona] a safe space, positive relationships, and the skills training to document real-life stories. Youth who are creative, resilient, educated, and active citizens are youth who benefit themselves, their families, and our community now and in […]
Digital storytelling
Woices: a new oral information tool for travelers
David Ciudad Rodriguez passes along word of a new site from Spain (I think) called Woices. It’s a free internet service that allows people to create, share and consume “echoes”: audio records that are linked to a very specific geographical location or real world object. Rodriguez says Woices’s ultimate goal is “to create a new […]
Zadi Diaz on video storytelling
I spent some time last week with Zadi Diaz, one of the organizers of the firstl Pixelodeon festival in Hollywood. Zadi’s one of the coolest people I know in the videoblogging world — high-energy, bursting with dazzling ideas and super nice. Says Zadi: "This is a new language. People are telling their stories with their […]
At the Digital Storytelling Unconference
Spent the day in San Francisco at the Digital Storytelling Unconference, a workshop put on by the Bay Area Video Coalition and the Community Technology Foundation of California. About 80 reprentatives of community-based organizations spent the day here to here presentations from me (giving a 20-minute talk about Ourmedia), Stewart Chiefet of the Internet Archive […]
Mapping and Web 2.0 mash-ups
Last night I guest-lectured at the Programming in Journalism class taught by Bill Gannon and Dan Gillmor at the University of California, Berkeley. We tackled the latest wrinkle in mash-up culture: Web 2.0 mash-ups that take two datasets and bring them together to create something useful or interesting. I suggested that this will become an […]