Editor’s note: Joe Biden’s video response at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYQS_Hg5p6U has been removed. I’m not sure why. Jeff Jarvis got around to blogging this before I had a chance to: PrezConference: A candidate answers! (Here’s my original videoblog post.) From Jeff today: We have our first reply to a PrezConference question from a candidate. Joe Biden […]
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Not on the ‘NewsHour’
I was invited to appear on today’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS today to discuss Viacom’s lawsuit against YouTube, but couldn’t make it. I think I would have been partnered with Susan Crawford, an assistant professor of law at Cardozo Law School, whom I’ve admired for years as a reformer in the field of […]
Viacom: One beeeeelion dollars
(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]