Had my first meeting with Bobby’s third-grade teacher Friday. He’s doing well. But I noticed that on one of his tests, he was marked wrong for not using a serial comma. A serial comma, for those who don’t know, is the comma before the final "and" in a phrase such as "ham, chips, and eggs." […]
Books I’m reading
Here are some quick impressions on a few of the books I’m reading: Googlepedia: The Ultimate Google Resource By Michael Miller 822 pages (Que)Page on Amazon Here’s a how-to guide that covers just about the entire Google universe. Miller takes us through the basics, such as how Google works, how to narrow your search to […]
Download and watch YouTube videos
Once of the things I’ve immensely disliked about YouTube since its launch is that the site offers you no way to download a video. (All of the 100,000-plus videos on Ourmedia can be downloaded.) I’ve previously written about MobileWhack (download YouTube videos to your iPod) and about Spain’s vDownloader. Now comes this great list of […]
Web sites for user-generated video
With Hollywood’ writers strike on, the San Jose Mercury News suggests switching off the television and tuning in to Web video. They include Ourmedia.org in their list of Web sites for user-generated video: www.youtube.com vids.myspace.com video.msn.com www.current.com www.blip.tv www.break.com www.videoegg.com www.dailymotion.com www.veoh.com video.google.com/ www.crackle.com www.jumpcut.com www.aol.com www.eyespot.com video.yahoo.com www.metacafe.com www.ourmedia.org
Making money with citizen media sites
I spent five minutes at the recent Online News Association conference in Toronto chatting with Courtney Lowery, a friend who’s the editor in chief of NewWest.net, one of the premier citizen media sites in the land. The day before, she gave a presentation about how to bring in different revenue streams to your pro-am citizen […]