The nominees for the Deutsche Welle’s 2005 international Best of the Blogs competition — the BOBs — were announced today. More than 100 Weblogs will be judged by the Internet community in 13 categories. BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone was on the jury that narrowed the list of 2,500+ nominated blogs to a list of about […]
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Who will help with Ourmedia’s next projects?
Wow, just got out of the Open Media Developers Summit at NYU in Greenwich Village. About 70 developers, filmmakers, citizens media advocates and other creative people came together, exchanged ideas, and agreed to continue the conversation. Ourmedia received an extraordinarily warm reception there. I’m in a taxi as I write this (don’t think it’s wired […]
Indymedia and Ourmedia
In the past few weeks, I’ve heard several people comment that they don’t know if there’s a need for Indymedia anymore now that Ourmedia is thriving. Well, I don’t know about that. The latest addition to this discussion comes out of Indymedia UK, where someone named “n” posted an essay with this bottom line: Anyone […]
Ourmedia hits two milestones
Congratulations to marce from Los Angeles, who became the 40,000th member of Ourmedia over the weekend. Not bad for a 5-month-old site! We just achieved another milestone as well: Ourmedia has been approved by California’s secretary of state as a not-for-profit corporation. So, you can start writing those big checks now to help support the […]
Looking for moderators
The nonprofit site Ourmedia.org needs more volunteer moderators. If you’ve got any spare time and want to support grassroots media, here’s your chance. (You can contact me here.) BoingBoing gives us some love today.