Above is the latest chart from Technorati, taken from David Sifry’s semi-annual State of the Blogosphere report released this week, charting the number of inbound links to mainstream news sites vs. top blogs. Fewer blogs there than in past comparisons. From Saturday’s NY Times: “The State of the Blogosphere” presented at sifry.com this week by […]
Howard Rheingold goes far
Strange, but the 90-second MPEG-4 video interview I shot of author Howard Rheingold on the Stanford campus, urging people to support Ourmedia, wound up on YouTube as a Flash movie. Hey, we’ll take the publicity.
Report from Under the Radar
Had a grand time at last night’s Under the Radar event at Fenwick West in Mountain View, where four startup founders showcased their video and vlogging technologies. Snapped these three photos with my Nokia N90 smart phone. I happened to know all four presenters: Mary Hodder of Bloqx gave the first public showing of Dabble, […]
2 pix from Stanford
I had the pleasure yesterday of giving a presentation on citizens media and Ourmedia to author Howard Rheingold’s Digital Journalism class at Stanford University. Other speakers during the semester include Craig Newmark (tomorrow), Dan Gillmor and Fabrice Florin. This was a very plugged-in group of students (including six Knight fellows). Everyone knew about blogging and […]
‘Vlogging, TV, and the New War for Eyeballs’
Under the Radar, an evening conference showcasing bleeding-edge Internet video technology, tonight presents “Vlogging, TV, and the New War for Eyeballs.” I’ll be one of three judges, along with Larry Marcus, General Partner, WaldenVC, and Duncan Davidson of VantagePoint Venture Partners. Rubbing shoulders with a lot of venture capitalists lately as we’re trying to create […]