I’m quoted in a Baltimore Sun story by David Folkenflik on participatory media and the Iraq war: Amateurs have opened door to horrifying views of war. Disturbing images have news outlets grappling with how much to show. Excerpt: J.D. Lasica, senior editor for the Online Journalism Review, says the U.S. military has lost the ability […]
We, the Media
I just noticed that Dan Gillmor and his editors at O’Reilly have changed the title of his upcoming book from Making the News to We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People. I like it. (Shades of We Media, to which Dan contributed.) Dan is giving a talk about the book in […]
Darknet: an experiment in group editing
As I’ve been noting for a long while on this weblog, I’ve been working on a book for nearly two years now for a major publisher. Darknet: Remixing the Future of Movies, Music and Television will detail the rise of the personal media revolution and the escalating conflict between entertainment companies and individuals using the […]
Blogging from ‘Genie’
I’m inside a lecture hall at UC Berkeley at the kickoff of the sixth annual new media conference, where panelists Howard Rheingold, Denise Caruso, Mark Schapiro and Christina Desser (along with Ray Kurzweil via videoconference) are holding forth on Living With The Genie: On Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery. (The Webcast is live […]
My first cease-and-desist order
I just received my first cease-and-desist order. Goes with the territory of personal publishing. On April 21 I republished the photo of flag-draped coffins taken by Tami Silicio that is floating around everywhere on the Net. The next day I posted the news that she had lost her job because of the photo’s publication in […]