Today’s San Jose Merc has a two-part package about Internet Archive co-founder and digital librarian visionary Brewster Kahle (I took the above photo of Brewster when the Internet Archive hosted the citizens media summit I organized on May 14, 2005): He fights for open access to the world’s digital library Dedicating his career to open […]
Movies with a message
On Wednesday I swung by Participant Productions, the relatively young movie production company in Beverly Hills founded by former eBay president Jeff Skoll.
I just posted to Ourmedia this 8-minute video interview with the amazing Micki Krimmel, Participant’s Director of Internet Outreach. She talks about the organization’s goals and its first three films: Good Night, and Good Luck; North Country, and the upcoming Syriana, about the oil industry. (See Ourmedia page | watch video — 21.8 MB in MPEG-4 | here’s a higher-quality version in H.264, 51MB)
Photos from LA trip
Here are a few photos from my Flickr photostream taken during my trip to Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Dana Point earlier this week. That’s Heather Schlegel at top, and me and Doc Searls.
Speaking at TechSummit 2005
I just gave the keynote address during lunch at TechSummit 2005 in Dana Point, Calif., the annual convention of the Computer & Communications Industry Association and Open Source & Industry Alliance. Lawrence Lessig is speaking tonight about the Grokster decision’s impact on technology innovation. Here’s the conference agenda (PDF). My talk centered on fair use […]
Ourmedia: a Best of Blogs finalist
The nominees for the Deutsche Welle’s 2005 international Best of the Blogs competition — the BOBs — were announced today. More than 100 Weblogs will be judged by the Internet community in 13 categories. BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone was on the jury that narrowed the list of 2,500+ nominated blogs to a list of about […]