Next month it’ll be two years since Marc Canter and I started Ourmedia.org with what then was an outlandish idea: giving free hosting and bandwidth to regular people — a place where they could store and show off their videos and other media for free. Now, with 270-plus video hosting sites out there and the […]
When a newspaper goes loco
(Photo of Jerry Roberts, left, former executive editor of the Santa Barbara News Press, with Dan Gillmor.) I spent the day today as a guest and participant at Newspaper 2.0, a workshop put on by Doc Searls at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Months in the making, the gathering drew 30 to 35 locals […]
Wrapping up WeMedia
Very cool time Thursday night, starting with a video presentation with Christine Gambito, one of the most popular video artists on YouTube, followed by me, Steve Rosenbaum of Magnify Media and three students from the University of Miami showing a Webisode series they created. We ran out of time — I didn’t even have a […]
Photos of WeMedia 2007
Here’s my Flickr set of photos I took at the WeMedia 2007 conference.
At the WeMedia conference
I’m here at the University of Miami at the WeMedia conference put on by iFOCOS, the Institute for the Connected Society (formerly the Media Center). Fascinating mix of people here. Here’s the program. There’s a live chat (top right of the conference home page) today and tomorrow. Last night I attended a bloggers dinner organized […]