Walt Mossberg (whom I ran into last week in San Jose) in the Wall Street Journal: It’s Not All YouTube — The Web Is a Trove Of Watchable Videos. Amen to that, brother. Excerpt: While YouTube is sometimes seen as synonymous with the Internet video revolution, there is a lot more to Web video. In […]
Meeting Howard Berman at the Tech Policy Summit
I’m attending the Tech Policy Summit in San Jose, a first-time conference about technology issues that is drawing a crowd of heavy hitters — most of the 150 or so people in the audience could well be on stage. Some of the speakers include Deborah Platt Majoras, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, […]
Guggenheim wins for ‘Inconvenient Truth’
Congratulations to Davis Guggenheim, director of An Inconvenient Truth, which won the best documentary Oscar tonight. Davis is not only a cool dude — he’s on the board of Creative Commons — but he’s also the nicest, most down-to-earth guy I’ve ever met from Hollywood. (By contrast, Al Gore, whom I ran into three times […]
A conversation with Doc Searls
A few days ago I was down in Santa Barbara at Doc Searls‘ place with Dan Gillmor to discuss the local media situation. While there, I did a video interview with Doc about some of the principles of blogging and citizen journalism, including independence and fairness. Doc, naturally, had some wise things to say. (I […]
‘should i stay or should i go?’
With British Prime Minister Tony Blair set to hightail it out of office in a few months and the news that the Brits are pulling part of its contingent out of Iraq, it’s a good time for an encore of Rx’s should i stay or should i go?