I’m interviewed in a story in today’s San Jose Mercury News: Slowing the flow of illicit uploads. Excerpt: The recent emergence of Web sites that encourage the public to upload copies of their own video and audio content is highlighting the difficulties of controlling the illicit spread of copyrighted material. The new sites are coming […]
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Ourmedia a finalist in UN World Summit Awards
The United Nations World Summit Awards are an international competition created in 2003 to highlight the most innovative digital content being created around the world. The awards coincide with the 2005 UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), an international UN summit that will take place in Tunisia this November. More than 150 countries […]
Meeting with Open Media founder
Had lunch today at Yank Sing in San Francisco with my Ourmedia partner, Marc Canter; Doug Kaye of IT Conversations; ZDNet columnist Steve Gillmor, Noah Glass, co-founder of Odeo; and founder Mike Homer (former senior vp at Netscape and AOL) and Wayne Dyer of the nonprofit Open Media Network, which went beta a month ago […]
Google’s foray into video
I just uploaded my first (test) video to Google under its new video upload program, so we’ll see how that goes. The process was pretty similar in some ways to Ourmedia‘s upload process. They ask for less metadata, but it’s interesting — and I think disappointing — that designating rights isn’t a part of the […]
Slate on the Archive and Ourmedia
Slate writer Paul Boutin interviewed me Wednesday for a piece on Brewster Kahle and his Internet Archive: Brewster Kahle made a copy of the Internet. Now, he wants your files. Last Friday Paul attended one of Brewster’s famous Friday afternoon brown bag lunches, where we go around the table and everyone discusses what’s happening in […]