The new Bing Maps geotargets Twitter tweets. Supernova roundup: Media, real-time services — and ‘the end of the Web era’ I spent Wednesday at the Supernova conference in San Francisco, which has morphed over the years from a gathering about mobile and telephony into one that addresses the larger themes sweeping through society: Social media. […]
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Tombstones and milestones
Personal account of the transformation of publishing and the evolution of authority–referencing Britannica, Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times
Ourmedia turns 2
Two years ago today Marc Canter and I launched Ourmedia.org: The global home for grassroots media. Couldn’t have done it without the support of Brewster Kahle and the crew at the Internet Archive. (Marc dropped out of the project in August 2005 to go on to other things, like People Aggregator). We were the first […]
Ourmedia: Almost 2 years old
Next month it’ll be two years since Marc Canter and I started Ourmedia.org with what then was an outlandish idea: giving free hosting and bandwidth to regular people — a place where they could store and show off their videos and other media for free. Now, with 270-plus video hosting sites out there and the […]
Valenti gives Ourmedia a big thumbs-up
The other day I spotted Jack Valenti, who headed the MPAA for nearly 39 years before stepping down last year, at a lunch table at the Aspen Institute. So I introduced myself and we had a nice chat for a half hour. I devote half of Chapter 2 in Darknet to Valenti and the MPAA. […]