I was too young to be “clean for Gene,” but I always respected Eugene McCarthy, the populist candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968 (and three times thereafter), who died Saturday at age 89. I met McCarthy only once, on the steps of a conference hall at Rutgers University in 1976. By then, McCarthy […]
A holiday video
Our 6-year-old son and our 10-week-old puppy have a 90-second Christmas greeting for you. (3mb MPEG-4: Ourmedia page | watch video) We’re inviting other people to submit holiday videos on Ourmedia.
Joined the Society for New Communications Research
Yesterday I had coffee with Jennifer McClure, founder and executive director of the Society for New Communications Research, along with Steven King from the Institute for the Future. The Society’s blogzine is here. Their vision is: “To be the leading think tank for the advanced study of new communications tools, technologies and emerging modes of […]
What the video web should become
In InfoWorld on Tuesday, the ever-wise Jon Udell has some thoughts about what the video web could — and should — become. There was great rejoicing at Macromedia when Google Video switched its player technology from VLC to Flash a couple of months ago. The move validated what the Macromedians had long been touting: the […]
Video of Amanda Congdon of ‘Rocketboom’
At the Symposium on Social Architecture at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center on Nov. 15, I put together a panel to talk about participatory media. One of the panelists was Amanda Congdon, host of Rocketboom, whom I had a terrific time talking with. "Rocketboom" is one of the breakout successes of the very young Internet […]