Spoke by phone with my friend Gary Price the other day. He’s a research librarian who founded ResourceShelf, DocuTicker (which offers a hand-picked selection of resources, reports and publications from government agencies, NGOs, think tanks and other public interest organizations) and also works for Ask.com. Among some cool sites that are on Gary’s radar screen […]
Shoot your self
Derek Powazek and Heather Champ have published the seventh issue of their hip magazine JPG. The 2-year-old "magazine of brave new photography" has been completely redesigned and relaunched, sporting a bigger size, more articles and an innovative website that empowers anyone to contribute. The new issue explores self-portraiture. Says Derek: "JPG Issue 7 is the […]
Doug Kaye on the state of podcasting
At Podcamp West yesterday, I interviewed Doug Kaye, the second person who began podcasting after Christopher Lydon — and before Adam Curry — so it’s odd that Wikipedia doesn’t mention Doug in its history of podcasting. We talk about IT Conversations, The Conversations Network and Gigavox Media. (Ourmedia page | watch video) Cross-posted to Real […]
At Podcamp West
Got back a little while ago from the first day of Podcamp West, a gathering of 150-200 podcasters at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco. Among those on hand: Chris Heuer, Chris Pirillo, Michael Geoghegan, Steve Rhodes, Chris and Uta Ritke, Tim Street, Corey Denis, Doug Kaye, Charles Hope, Robert Scoble, Angelique Acevedo, T.J. […]
State of the blogosphere
Technorati’s David Sifry on the State of the Blogosphere. About 100,000 new weblogs are being created each day. And the globalization of the blogosphere continues. "Our data appears to show both English and Spanish languages are a more universal blog language than the other two most dominant language, Japanese and Chinese, which seem to be […]