We just issued a press announcement about Ourmedia hitting the 50,000-member mark. Member No. 50,000 is Pastor John Rewald of the Oasis New Life Centre in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, who published an mp3 of his most recent church sermon. We also filed for nonprofit 501(c)(3) status with the IRS this week. And we named two […]
Heading to Portable Media Expo
Heading to the Portable Media Expo — largely a celebration of podcasting — in Ontario, outside LA, on Thursday. I’m speaking Friday on a panel about citizens media with John Furrier of Podtech and Mike Dunn of Hearst Interactive. Should see a lot of familiar faces: Doug Kaye, Jason Calacanis, Gerd Leonhard, Derrick Oien, Phil […]
H2O playlists
I’ll be leading a session next Tuesday at the Symposium on Social Architecture at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center. Which was a good motivation to finally publish the video I conducted when I last visited earlier this summer. Molly Krause, leader of the H2O project, explained the benefits of playlists in academic and other learning […]
Creative Commons inducts Jimmy Wales
Just got back from tonight’s Creative Commons party, at which Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was brought aboard as a member of the nonprofit’s board. It was my first time meeting Jimmy in person, and I was thrilled to give him a copy of “Darknet” and to discuss possible collaboration down the road between the Wikimedia […]
Media bloggers Statement of Principles
Just got off a conference call as a board director of the Media Bloggers Association. For several months now, I’ve been working with our Standards team to devise a set of guidelines for members of our organization (not all bloggers, mind you). As I mentioned on the call, the MBA’s members had strong feelings on […]