Next month it’ll be two years since Marc Canter and I started Ourmedia.org with what then was an outlandish idea: giving free hosting and bandwidth to regular people — a place where they could store and show off their videos and other media for free. Now, with 270-plus video hosting sites out there and the […]
Citizen media
When a newspaper goes loco
(Photo of Jerry Roberts, left, former executive editor of the Santa Barbara News Press, with Dan Gillmor.) I spent the day today as a guest and participant at Newspaper 2.0, a workshop put on by Doc Searls at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Months in the making, the gathering drew 30 to 35 locals […]
Wrapping up WeMedia
Very cool time Thursday night, starting with a video presentation with Christine Gambito, one of the most popular video artists on YouTube, followed by me, Steve Rosenbaum of Magnify Media and three students from the University of Miami showing a Webisode series they created. We ran out of time — I didn’t even have a […]
Flavors of participatory media
Here’s the 5-minute music video I put together for the Idea Festival called Flavors of participatory media. It shows the wide range of citizen media — videoblogs, podcasts, citizen media sites, place sites, photo sharing sites, mash-ups — and carries a message: There’s far more to this revolution than lip syncing on YouTube. (Ourmedia page […]
A BBC reporter on citizens media
I interviewed the talented and extremely perceptive BBC technology reporter Jo Twist about the personal media revolution when we attended Gnomedex. Here’s the 8-minute video interview in MPEG-4. (Ourmedia page | watch video) Technorati tags: personal media, grassroots media, citizens media, citizen journalism, Gnomedex, BBC, HonorTagJournalism