I’ve been swamped even more than usual this week, so I haven’t been able to mention the VertigoCon gathering held Monday on the heels of Vloggercon. Some 45 developers and figures in the grassroots media movement showed up at the San Francisco State University Downtown Center for a combined meeting of Video Vertigo and the […]
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Paul Saffo on the personal media revolution
Looks like Paul Saffo, head of the Institute for the Future, has embraced the term I coined in Darknet: the personal media revolution. >From Sunday’s San Jose Merc: The new thing is the personal media revolution. The world of the consumer is over. So what’s next is an economy where the line between buying and […]
Tracking your children’s whereabouts
Michael Langberg takes a look at new location-based services that let parents track their children’s whereabouts. the latest, Verizon’s Chaperone, launched Monday. For those who want to look into these, here are five cell phone tracking companies.
Interviewed on NPR
I’m briefly interviewed on today’s All Things Considered from NPR. It should be online after 7:30 pm EST. The old cliche “politics makes strange bedfellows” is proving itself true: The liberal advocacy group Moveon.org is fighting on the same side as the Christian Coalition. That may be the most headline-catching part of an issue with […]
Identity Mashup at Harvard
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society will host Identity Mashup June 19-21 at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA. Identity Mashup will explore the role of identity systems (tools that let users and merchants know whom to trust on the web) in furthering or inhibiting privacy, civil liberties and new forms of online civic […]