I’ve been asked to keynote this year’s Digital Storytelling Festival in beautiful Sedona, Arizona. I owe a debt of gratitude to Salon’s Scott Rosenberg, who keynoted last year and recommended me this time around. Some quick background: Founded in 1995 by Dana and Denise Atchley, the Digital Storytelling Conference & Festival immerses participants in the […]
A lockbox for digital radio
Mindjack has just published a piece I pulled together, culled from research for my upcoming book Darknet. Will digital radio be Napsterized? looks at a new proposal by the Recording Industry Association of America for the FCC to impose new regulations mandating the adoption of a broadcast flag standard for audio. What does this mean […]
Three more chapters of ‘Darknet’
I’ve posted three more draft chapters from my upcoming book Darknet: Remixing the Future of Movies, Music and Television on my Darknet blog and Darknet wiki: Chapter 4: When Personal and Mass Media Collide (blog) (wiki) A look at amateur filmmaking, pushback by Hollywood, and other forms of participatory media. Chapter 5: Code Warriors (blog) […]
Blogs, newspapers, and link authority
The most interesting thing to come out of last night’s Technorati Developers Salon — at least from the perspective of this new media guy — was the slide that David Sifry showed depicting the number of links back to each media site from the blogosphere. The importance of this measurement is obvious: The higher your […]
Technorati: Charting blogdom’s rise
I spent nearly three hours tonight at Technorati’s first Developers Salon at Technorati’s HQ in a startup-friendly quarter of lower San Francisco. More familiar faces there than I expected. Among those on hand were founder David Sifry, Marc Canter and eweek columnist Steve Gillmor (pictured above), Doc Searls (who drove up from Santa Barbara for […]