Just gave a talk about grassroots video and social media at a session at the third New Communications Forum put on by the Society for New Communications Research. Showed a whole bunch of videos, including political mash-ups, the SXSW Interactive mash-up we did last year with Josh Leo, Steve Garfield and others, and the JetBlue […]
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NPR tackles social media
At the WeMedia conference in Miami last week, I finally had the chance to meet Andy Carvin in person. Andy’s a longtime blogger, podcaster and all-around smart guy. He’s now helping National Public Radio devise its social media strategy. In this 8-minute video interview, he talks about "NPRness" and the challenges of bringing social media […]
Ourmedia: Almost 2 years old
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 […]
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 […]