Here’s entry No. 5 for Videoblogging Week. A little while back I interviewed Debbie Galant, editor and co-founder of the North Jersey publication Baristanet.com, one of the most successful of the 800-plus citizen media sites in the nation. They’re pulling in close to six figures a year, and Debbie tells how they’ve achieved that level […]
Is the Internet changing the world?
Here’s video #4 for Videoblogging Week (see others’ videos at MeFeedia). Last week I ran into social media pioneer Stowe Boyd at the Social Media Consensus gathering in Palo Alto, Calif. The organizer, Britain’s Bronwyn Kunhardt, is posing the question: Is the Internet good for humanity? We’ll be working together for a series of […]
Jarah Euston on FresnoFamous
Here’s video #3 for Videoblogging Week (see others’ videos at MeFeedia). I talk with Jarah Euston, one of my fave people in the world of citizen media. Jarah is the co-founder of FresnoFamous.com and ModestoFamous.com, which she sold to McClatchy newspapers shortly after this interview. We talk about some of the issues that a citizen […]
A milestone in presidential politics?
Editor’s note: Joe Biden’s video response at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYQS_Hg5p6U has been removed. I’m not sure why. Jeff Jarvis got around to blogging this before I had a chance to: PrezConference: A candidate answers! (Here’s my original videoblog post.) From Jeff today: We have our first reply to a PrezConference question from a candidate. Joe Biden […]
Ethan Zuckerman on citizen media’s global scope
Here’s video #2 for Videoblogging Week (see others’ videos at MeFeedia): An interview with Ethan Zuckerman, co-founder of the international blogging site Global Voices Online. The video is part of the Center for Citizen Media’s Principles of Citizen Journalism project. I spoke with Ethan at the Ideas Festival about the global scope of citizen media. […]