I’m at the Participatory Academy, the 4th European Workshop on Cross Media & Collaboration, at Växjö University in Sweden, where I’ll be giving the keynote tomorrow about participatory media. About 150 people are here, mostly students and educators, discussing the emerging new media landscape. Ulf from SVT — Sweden’s equivalent of the BBC or our […]
My longest day. Ever.
I’m here at the Participatory Academy at Vaxjo University in southern Sweden — barely. Here’s what happened. After an 11-hour flight from San Francisco to Frankfurt, Germany, I asked a fellow passenger for the local time. He gave it to me, and I set my watch eight hours ahead, from 12:45 am to 8:45 am. […]
Wildfire photos
Doc Searls has posted a Flickr series of far-off photos of the Santa Ana winds-whipped wildfires in Southern California.
Motionbox adds ‘deep tagging’ for videos
Motionbox, the personal video sharing service, today added Deep Tagging, giving users the ability to tag selected portions inside of a video, jump to the best parts, and instantly share them with others. Motionbox’s Deep Tagging feature lets you intuitively mark specific moments inside a video and add descriptive keywords that apply just to those […]
A nice surprise
My mother called two months ago with some odd news. She spotted my name in small print in a local newspaper in New Jersey. Something about unclaimed property when I was living in Garfield, NJ. Since I moved out when I was 2, we figured it was a savings bond my parents bought me, deposited, […]