Spent a great evening last night at the San Francisco Symphony. Kevin Smokler, author of Bookmark Now, organized a bloggers night, and a dozen of us had dinner at Arlequin and then met up with another dozen or so bloggers at Davies Symphony Hall. It was only my second time at Davies, one of the […]
Mark Cuban: YouTube is doomed
Spectrum Online: Mark Cuban: YouTube is doomed. Excerpt: Cuban: … So much of YouTube’s success and model is based on the safe harbor—which seems really slippery. … If you [consider] the safe harbor, I don’t think YouTube is a service provider. Two, it says that if you are aware of infringement, you have got […]
Sari Gelser on Truthout.org
At Pixelodeon last month I had a chance to chat with Sari Gelser, news editor of Truthout.org, a distributed citizen news network that’s doing important work. Here’s our 3-minute video interview: MPEG-4 video at 640×480 | Ourmedia page Flash version on Internet Archive MPEG-4 or Flash version at 320×240 on Blip.tv
A modest review of ‘Everything Is Miscellaneous’
How is the Internet reshaping our ideas about organizing information — and, in many ways, our ideas about organizing our lives? One of our keenest cultural observers, David Weinberger, helps frame the discussion in illuminating ways in his new book, Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. I’ve seen David enthrall audiences […]
Do video producers need a model release form?
Do video producers and video bloggers need to obtain a right-of-publicity/model release form from the subjects of their videos if they plan on using the video commercially (including making money from ads)? I posed the question to San Francisco attorney Colette Vogele at the recent Web Video Summit in San Jose, and then caught up […]