(copyright photo by New Line Cinema) From Jeremiah Owyang: Viacom: “One Beeeeelion Dollars.” This is one of those news stories we’ve all been expecting for some time (and which will be old news by the time tomorrow’s newspapers hit the doorstep). I’m a bit conflicted about this. I like YouTube a lot (except for its […]
David Weinberger on his new book
Yesterday I spent a few minutes with David Weinberger — an old friend, co-author of Cluetrain and author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined — after his lively and deeply interesting keynote talk at the New Communications Forum. I pulled him into the hallway for a 4-minute video interview with my Nokia N-93 cell phone (the […]
YouTube’s 4 big failings
I like YouTube. I really do. I use it, and credit them with blowing the doors off the grassroots video revolution by making it brain-dead simple to upload and share videos. But when author David Weinberger cited YouTube as a public commodity — "it’s ours" — it was a bit too much. I cornered David […]
At NewComm Forum
Just gave a talk about grassroots video and social media at a session at the third New Communications Forum put on by the Society for New Communications Research. Showed a whole bunch of videos, including political mash-ups, the SXSW Interactive mash-up we did last year with Josh Leo, Steve Garfield and others, and the JetBlue […]
Maui photos
Back from a few days in Maui. Perfect weather, two dozen whale sightings (many right from the beach at Kanaapali), and I got a head start on my summer tan. Oh, and here’s the de rigeur Flickr photo set.