You’ll pardon a little end-of-the-day marveling at the crazy day we just finished. Here are Ourmedia’s referral logs from Monday: 10,000 hits via slashdot today 1,020 from instapundit (a friend) 965 from gizmodo 268 from boingboing 220 from my blog 132 from deli.cio.us 125 from scripting 100 from seth godin And that’s with the site […]
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Early word on Ourmedia
Early coverage (I almost said “press”) of Ourmedia: Digital-Lifestyles.info in Britain interviewed me by email today. Excerpt: I imagine that scammers, spammers, porn merchants and ne’er do wells will be attracted to this venture like a moth to a flame. JD Lasica: It won’t be a free for all. We have a good-sized team of […]
Ourmedia slashdotted
It didn’t take long for Ourmedia to be slashdotted. Just what we needed with our servers already getting slammed. Consensus seems to be: This is a pretty cool thing. Some skepticism about the long-term promises we’re making (we’ll see how that goes). Disappointment at the no-porn rule. :~) I dove in and answered a half-dozen […]
Ourmedia is here!!
Exactly nine months ago, Marc Canter and I met up at Supernova. I mentioned to him the idea I’d been kicking around with Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive to create a grassroots media organization, site, and registry called Open Media. Turned out that Open Media was, ironically, a trademarked name. But Marc jumped at […]