The Center for Social Media at American University’s School of Communication has just released an important new report: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video, which builds on the Center’s findings from its Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User- Generated Video report. (The report might well have been called: How […]
iJustine on her ‘lifecasting’ experience
iJustine from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At the first meeting of Intel Insiders at Intel HQ in San Jose the other day, I finally had the chance to meet Justine Ezarik, better known by her online handle, iJustine. She gained instant Internet fame (she now has thousands of friends on Facebook and Twitter) when she […]
Review of Samsung SC-HMX10 HD camcorder
Back in March Samsung sent me its recently released SC-HMX10 HD camcorder to check out. Here are some first impressions: First and above all else, this camcorder is a delight to carry around and use. It’s stylish, curvy and awesomely sleek. The form factor is unparalled: It’s so portable and lightweight (a bit under 13 […]
MAPLight explores influence of money in politics
Maplight: shining a light on politics and money from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Sean Tanner, research director of MAPLight.org, talks about how the organization provides transparency to the political donations system through widgets that tap into pubic information databases. We spoke at the NetSquared conference in San Jose, Calif., in May 2008, where MAPLight won […]
Miro, the democratic media player
Miro, the democratic media player from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s an 11-minute video interview I conducted with Nicholas Reville, co-founder and executive director of the Participatory Culture Foundation, maker of Miro at getmiro.com. Miro’s a cool application that lets you watch and subscribe to millions of channels of content created by us (any video […]