I was out all day at a wonderful digital storytelling workshop put on by Leslie Rule of KQED in SF, who happens to also be a member of the Ourmedia Advisory Board. (Photos of our board members should be restored soon; yet another alpha glitch.)
Michael Bazeley in today’s San Jose Mercury News: New Web sites to store public’s digital content. “What would you give to see video of your great-grandmother?” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle said. “I’d give a lot. These may not be the scholarly texts of the next generation. But this is compelling nonetheless.”
The blogosphere also continues to throw a whole lotta love our way. Here are just two links:
Mike Davidson has an extraordinarily incisive post: Thoughts on Ourmedia, Day 2. “This is the most ambitious attempt at free media we’ve ever seen.” Wonder if he’ll join our effort.
Douglas Fisher at his Common Sense Journalism: Ourmedia.com online, NowPublic – and other sites.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
All 4 of my grandparents died before I was born, and there’s only one photograph of any of them, my maternal grandmother.
I’d love to see video of any of them.
Retrieval will require very good labeling to figure out whose grandmother it is.
Even now, it’s hard to find old female friends. Women often lose their names when they marry, so you don’t know that blogger Mary Smith is the Mary Jones you went to college with.
Hi JD,
I thought I’d pass this on to you:
This week we will begin giving out cash awards to the best photographs we receive. Our Citizen Photojournalism Awards aims to show the best news related photographs in citizen journalism. We’ve got a little blurb on the site that describes what we mean by ‘news related’. Please pass the invitation on to anyone you know that has good material. We’ve got to give that $1000 to someone.
See you on Friday.
Best,
Michael.
Mtippett (at) NowPublic (period) com