I’m at the E&P/MediaWeek Interactive Media Conference in Miami. Knight Foundation president Alberto Ibargüen just announced the winners of the News Challenge, in which $12 million in grants were announced out of the five-year program’s $25 million contest. The goal is to help lead journalism into its digital future. I got to meet nearly all […]
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The future of video
I’m at a gathering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, today. About 40 of us — from academia, the media, the tech world, students — are talking about the future of media, Internet television, and the statewide UCTV (University of California Television) system. UCTV and the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media […]
At Stanford’s MediaX conference
I just finished a talk, along with Dave Toole of Outhink Media, at the fifth annual MediaX conference at Stanford, being held today and Tuesday. About 300 educators and business people in the audience. (Why oh why did they have to schedule this smack in the middle of the Web 2.0 Expo? I’ll be there […]
At NewComm Forum
Just gave a talk about grassroots video and social media at a session at the third New Communications Forum put on by the Society for New Communications Research. Showed a whole bunch of videos, including political mash-ups, the SXSW Interactive mash-up we did last year with Josh Leo, Steve Garfield and others, and the JetBlue […]
Wrapping up WeMedia
Very cool time Thursday night, starting with a video presentation with Christine Gambito, one of the most popular video artists on YouTube, followed by me, Steve Rosenbaum of Magnify Media and three students from the University of Miami showing a Webisode series they created. We ran out of time — I didn’t even have a […]