Next week I’ll be staying at Lake Como in northern Italy for a couple of days with Deirdré Straughan, a videoblogger as well as Director of Customer Experience for TVBlob. They’re onto something pretty cool and just announced a beta program that I thought would be worth sharing, especially with my friends in Italy: We […]
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Photos of OnHollywood
Here are two dozen photos I shot at OnHollywood this week in a Flickr set. (That’s Tom Green, top, and Colette Vogele.) And here’s a 6-minute video interview I conducted with actor Tom Green: MPEG-4 | H.264 for QT7. Tony Perkins made two surprise announcements at the conclusion of OnHollywood: the conference will return for […]
Preserving an Internet for all
I was interviewed for NPR’s “All Things Considered,” which went up online a few hours ago, on the subject of Net neutrality — but my remarks didn’t make the cut. In Internet Debate: Preserving User Parity, San Francisco-based reporter Laura Sydell asks: hould the Internet be divided into fast and slow lanes? That’s the question […]
‘Save the Internet’ campaign
A major effort to educate the public about Net neutrality, and to lobby Congress against allowing telecoms to create a two-tier Internet, begins Monday. See my Darknet blog for details. I was just interviewed by NPR on this subject, and the report should air on All Things Considered this Tuesday. As with everything, it’s not […]
Amber MacArthur: Tech news up north
At Real People Network, I have a new video interview with Amber MacArthur, the co-host (with Leo Laporte) of "Call for Help," a great tech show on G4 cable TV in Toronto.