I cornered Daniel Meadows, one of the icons of the digital storytelling movement, a week ago at the Digital Storytelling Festival at KQED in San Francisco. Daniel talks about his personal journey from journalism ("doing media to others") to storytelling ("enabling people to tell their own stories"). If you’re wondering what digital storytelling is all […]
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Video iPod: Where’s discussion of free video?
I was sorely disappointed by today’s coverage of the unveiling of Apple’s new video iPod in the press. The San Jose Mercury News, for instance, had three long articles, on page 1 and the front of its Business section: Apple deal with Disney to offer top TV shows IVideo needs one big thing: content Networks […]
Highlights from ‘Television is going online’ conference
A few takeaways from today’s Getting Ready for Prime Time: Online Video and the Future of Television conference in Berkeley, CA: Interesting tidbit: Someone pointed out that the Minnow — the name of the boat in “Gilligan’s Island” — was a tongue-in-cheek reference to Newton Minnow, the FCC commissioner who in 1961 described television as […]
Videos of Tony Kahn, Mur Lafferty
I enjoyed spending Tuesday and Wednesday at Duke University in Durham, NC, for the first academic Symposium on Podcasting. I’m getting burned out a bit on conference blogging (especially when I’m speaking at the event), so I did some videoblogging service journalism. Here are two short videos (really enjoyed chatting with Tony and Mur); more […]
Cybil Weigel on amateur filmmaking
When I was down in LA a couple of weeks back, I interviewed my friend, the remarkably talented filmmaker Cybil Weigel, about her latest work in music video, grassroots filmmaking, and her Embeddedin.la project. It’s seven minutes long, 25MB, in MPEG-4. (Ourmedia page | watch video)