The most interesting thing about citizens media, of course, is that you never know what we’re going to produce. What’s apparent is that people want to take part in media — and to take it apart, remix it, annotate it, recirculate it. Reclaim their place in the ancient craft of storytelling. They want to turn […]
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International flavoring for Ourmedia
Ourmedia is getting a bit of international exposure, first in Spanish (as well as here), and now we’re working with the producer of a popular television news show in Bosnia about hosting their program on Ourmedia. We’ve also gotten more overseas moderators for Ourmedia — but we need more women moderators! More than 6,000 people […]
Whole lotta love from blogland
I was out all day at a wonderful digital storytelling workshop put on by Leslie Rule of KQED in SF, who happens to also be a member of the Ourmedia Advisory Board. (Photos of our board members should be restored soon; yet another alpha glitch.) Michael Bazeley in today’s San Jose Mercury News: New Web […]
Podcast about Ourmedia
Doug Kaye of the brilliant grassroots media site IT Conversations has a new podcast, interviewing me and partner Marc Canter about the launch of Ourmedia, and how we’re out to change the world — with a little help from our friends.
Members flocking to Ourmedia
We’ve been getting tons of new members at Ourmedia.org since we opened our doors yesterday — far more than we expected. We’re at almost 2,000 members now. The site was down for most of this afternoon as we switched over to a more powerful server. You should be able to access the site now.