I met some very cool people at the Pixelodeon festival two weeks ago. I’ll be posting interviews over the next week or so. Here’s a 3-minute video interview I did with CNET associate editor Veronica Belmont, who has quite a following over at veronicabelmont.com. She hosts CNET’s Crave Video Podcast. I’m starting to experiment with […]
Podcasts & interviews
Debra Galant on citizen media
Here’s entry No. 5 for Videoblogging Week. A little while back I interviewed Debbie Galant, editor and co-founder of the North Jersey publication Baristanet.com, one of the most successful of the 800-plus citizen media sites in the nation. They’re pulling in close to six figures a year, and Debbie tells how they’ve achieved that level […]
Is the Internet changing the world?
Here’s video #4 for Videoblogging Week (see others’ videos at MeFeedia). Last week I ran into social media pioneer Stowe Boyd at the Social Media Consensus gathering in Palo Alto, Calif. The organizer, Britain’s Bronwyn Kunhardt, is posing the question: Is the Internet good for humanity? We’ll be working together for a series of […]
Jarah Euston on FresnoFamous
Here’s video #3 for Videoblogging Week (see others’ videos at MeFeedia). I talk with Jarah Euston, one of my fave people in the world of citizen media. Jarah is the co-founder of FresnoFamous.com and ModestoFamous.com, which she sold to McClatchy newspapers shortly after this interview. We talk about some of the issues that a citizen […]
Ethan Zuckerman on citizen media’s global scope
Here’s video #2 for Videoblogging Week (see others’ videos at MeFeedia): An interview with Ethan Zuckerman, co-founder of the international blogging site Global Voices Online. The video is part of the Center for Citizen Media’s Principles of Citizen Journalism project. I spoke with Ethan at the Ideas Festival about the global scope of citizen media. […]