(copyright photo by New Line Cinema) From Jeremiah Owyang: Viacom: “One Beeeeelion Dollars.” This is one of those news stories we’ve all been expecting for some time (and which will be old news by the time tomorrow’s newspapers hit the doorstep). I’m a bit conflicted about this. I like YouTube a lot (except for its […]
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YouTube’s 4 big failings
I like YouTube. I really do. I use it, and credit them with blowing the doors off the grassroots video revolution by making it brain-dead simple to upload and share videos. But when author David Weinberger cited YouTube as a public commodity — "it’s ours" — it was a bit too much. I cornered David […]
At NewComm Forum
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 […]
‘should i stay or should i go?’
With British Prime Minister Tony Blair set to hightail it out of office in a few months and the news that the Brits are pulling part of its contingent out of Iraq, it’s a good time for an encore of Rx’s should i stay or should i go?
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 […]