JD Lasica
About: Social media evangelist and strategist. Co-founder of Ourmedia.org. Partner in Bid4Vid.com. Author of "Darknet."
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20 free ebooks about social media
--Missed this a couple of weeks ago from Chris Brogan: 20 Free eBooks About Social Media. See the 130-plus comments as well. Nicely done.
Video to overtake photography?
--Terry Heaton at Media 2.0 Intel: Video to overtake photography?The act of sharing videos online is becoming so prevalent among young people that Ka...
Steve Rosenbaum on Magnify.net
--Steve Rosenbaum on Magnify.net from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here's a 5-minute video interview I conducted with Steve Rosenbaum, a pioneer in the f...
Public media coverage from the Democratic convention
--Kevin Dando passes along word of PBS's planned coverage of Denver this week:On the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, we want to ...
It takes tech to elect a president
--Auren Hoffman: Technology is the Deciding Factor in Election Campaigns. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have each stamped elections with their inno...
The Onion launches CitySearch competitor
--TechCrunch: No Joke: The Onion Launches CitySearch Competitor. America’s Finest News Source has launched Decider, a local entertainment site that...
Jon Stewart excoriates media for lazy coverage
--Huffington Post: Jon Stewart Lectures Reporters For Lazy Coverage. CNN reports that "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart gave the press a tongue-lashing ...
McCain: US as a debtor nation not a big priority
--John McCain: U.S. as a debtor nation not a big priority from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here's footage I shot of Sen. John McCain at Stanford Unive...
Ubiquity for Firefox: Mashups for regular folks
--This is one of the best screencasts I've ever seen: It comes to us from Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla Labs. The screencas...
Singapore International Storytelling Festival
--Wish I could be at the Singapore International Storytelling Festival (perhaps they'll invite me one year). Events begin this week, and Denise Atc...
An experiment in youth engagement
--An experiment in youth engagement from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At the MIT Media Lab recently I interviewed Karen A. Brennan of the wonderfully ...
Bloggers join the media crush in Denver
--San Jose Mercury News: Blog Shack: At new media tent, words and beer flow freely. Excerpt: Some 500 bloggers from Berkeley's Daily Kos to Susan ...
LA's top 20 influencers
--Oh, why not. NowPublic names the "20 most influential people in Los Angeles," based on their social media activity. Jason, Perez, Wil, Micki, Zadi,...
Are 'Web serials' foundering? Not the genuine ones
--Virginia Heffernan in yesterday's NY Times Magazine: Web serial killers: why are online TV-like shows foundering? Excerpt:Right now Web serials...
Google provides free directory service
--Not sure how I missed this from months ago, but if you dial 1-800-GOOG-411, Google's 411 service will give you directory service — for free. Here's...
Facebook hits 100 million users
--Marshall Kirkpatrick at Red Write Web: Facebook hits 100 million users.
Wikipedia defines its future
--SF Chronicle: The online encyclopedia Wikipedia defines its future in its new digs in San Francisco.
Interview with pro-Tibet videobloggers in hiding
--Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing TV interviews my friends and videoblogging pioneers Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson while they were in hiding after videot...
How to get more productive
--Chris Brogan offers advice on how to do more with less time — in other words, productivity tips. Among the tools he highlights are several I wasn...
Facebook is changing how faculty and students interact
--Online Social Networks: Facebook: Changing The Way Faculty And Students Interact.
Widgets for taking social actions
--Social media is more than Facebook, blogging, podcasts and businesses that have discovered the art of conversation. It's also about us creating...
The New York Times on SpotUs
--I'm surprised the New York Times has latched onto this embryonic effort so early on, but such are the desperate times in the news business: Crow...
Michael Phelps overtakes Obama on Facebook
--OK, a frivolous but fun post: CNN.com: Michael Phelps overtakes Obama on Facebook, 1,399,000 "fans" to Obama's 1,383,000 "supporters." John McC...
Social media in the business arena
--Peter Kim: Social media marketing's scalability problem. Jeremiah Owyang: Best And Worst Of Social Network Marketing, 2008. Social Media Explore...
UNLV students covering the Democratic Convention
--Very exciting to see that journalism students at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas will be Twittering here about the Democratic National Conventio...
A look at Nokia's N78 and N82
--As regular readers of this blog know, I'm a member of the Nokia bloggers program. They loan me smart phones to check out for a few months, I writ...
The AP smears Obama-Biden
--As MoveOn.org informed its members today:On Saturday, the Associated Press (whose articles are published in thousands of newspapers nationwide) wr...
The doings at Gnomedex
--Author Charlene Li , who recently left Forrester, gives a good wrapup of day 1 at Gnomedex, up in Seattle, one of my favorite annual tech conf...
Flock 2.0: Getting social
--I've been using Flock (in addition to Firefox) on and off for the past year. Now comes this: Flock 2.0 beta 2 Getting Social, Getting Started ...
Newspaper reporters at convention: 50 times the cost of a blogger
--The Daily Kos asks — properly — why it costs newspapers and traditional media organizations in excess of $10,000 a day per reporter to cover the De...
New look at changing news habits
--Amy Gahran at E-Media Tidbits: Pew Report on Changing News Habits. people-press.org The Pew report shows that more youth are going "newsless"...
Do social networks mean the end of privacy?
--Scientific American: Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy? Young people share the most intimate details of personal life on social-network...
The Social Web: A map for visual learners
--From E-Media Tidbits: The Social Web: A Map for Visual Learners. For those of us who are visual learners, Brian Solis of Future Works and Jess...
Digital Storytelling summit
--Spent the afternoon at Digital Storytelling & 21st Century Skills: A Summit & Gathering at KQED public television in San Francisco. Digi...
The next monetization battle
--Robert Scoble: Where Google and Facebook are fighting the next monetization battle. Excerpt:Let me simplify into a single sentence. Adding social n...
Press photographer sues over arrest
--SF Chronicle: Press photographer sues Oakland over arrest. I hope the photographer wins a substantial monetary judgment as a deterrent to this kin...
Obama's text message on Biden
--There has been a lot of speculation about what Barack Obama would say in his text message to supporters. Here it is:From: 622-62 Barack has chosen...
Google cache on Chinese gymnast's real age
--The China Digital Times asks, How Old is [Chinese gymnast and gold medalist] He Kexin (???), Really? The answer is 14 (or possibly 13), well und...
The Year of the Political Blogger has arrived
--NY Times: The Year of the Political Blogger Has Arrived.
Sugar: Sweet times for a Web network for women
--San Jose Mercury News: San Francisco-based Sugarinc.com offers a network of channels focused on topics that draw women 18 to 44.
Behold the coming Cinematic Internet
--The Cinematic Internet from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At the Intel Developer Forum Wednesday I was pulled aside and invited to interview Eric B. ...
Citizen journalists arrested in China
--Heard earlier today that Brian Conley, founder of the award-winning citizen journalism site AliveinBaghdad.com, has been arrested in Beijing for tr...
Citizen journalist Wolf hired by Bay Area daily
--SF Chronicle: Videoblogger/citizen journalist/former federal prisoner Josh Wolf is now a "real" journalist at a small South Bay daily. (Chroni...
Why young people trust Jon Stewart
--Behind in my reading, but didn't want to overlook this in the NY Times: Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America? The piece looks sm...
Photoshopping your family history
--From the NY Times the other day: I Was There. Just Ask Photoshop. Excerpt: “It used to be that photographs provided documentary evidence, and the...
Sharing culture
--Gerd Leonhard has a 3-minute screencast on Blip.tv about how sharing culture is reinventing the content industry. I agree, though YouTube is just o...
Disclosure and conflict of interest statement
--After blogging since May 2001, I've decided to post a short disclosure statement because I want to be transparent when writing about companies or o...
Inspire: Innovation starts with education
--A couple of weeks ago Intel launched a new education-focused online community called Inspire. The site is now live at Inspiredbyeducation.com&...
SeeClickFix: Get things fixed in your community
--I proposed developing something very similar to this to the Knight Foundation two years ago (along with a follow-up back end) and was turned down...
Fastest-growing US companies rapidly adopting social media
--Marshall Kirkpatrick in Read Write Web: Study: Fastest Growing US Companies Rapidly Adopting Social Media. A one year follow up on a study of s...
New podcasting widget
--One of the announcements coming out of the New Media Expo in Las Vegas that pricked my attention was the news that Personal Life Media just relea...
You Decide: Challenge your assumptions
--Tiffany Shackelford tells of an interesting new tool from SF public television station KQED: You Decide is an “online devil’s advocate” ...
Festival set to turn Brisbane green
--Here's a conference that looks both fun and important: Greenfest, billed as "Australia's largest free, green and emerging arts festival" at South...
Dancing Matt Harding stumbles on the true meaning of the Web
--You've probably seen the Where the Hell Is Matt? videos — the main one has been viewed over 11 million times and the 2008 version (above) more ...
Live photo blogging and instant journalism
--At the IdeaLab blog, Anthony Pesce, editor of the UCLA Daily Bruin, beholds the glory of the iPhone's photo instant-upload feature and wonders at i...
Rosen on the missing ingredient in journalism: context
--At PressThink, Jay Rosen riffs about the lack of context in today's mediasphere and the dire need for increased explanatory journalism.
How to stop Fox News's smears against Obama
--Director Robert Greenwald's latest fact-checking video: How to stop Fox News's smears against Obama. The Fox virus won't stop, but we can fact-chec...
Social action in person
--Spent Wednesday night at a new event in San Francisco called awareness2action that drew 40-50 people to the DragonBar in San Francisco's North Beac...
Audience-centric film events
--Just got this word from Lance Weiler, a filmmaker and co-founder of two free events in the SF Bay Area this weekend: From Here to Awesome Theme: ...
NBC sees new media habits form with Olympic games
--Associated Press: NBC sees new media habits form with Olympic games. About half of the people who are using mobile phones to pull down video or ...
Valley start-ups offer new ways to link folks online
--San Jose Mercury News: Valley start-ups Mebo, TokBox offer new ways to link folks online. Instant-messaging and videoconferencing services form par...
Q&A with founder of ReelChanges.org
--In May I wrote about ReelChanges.org, a new nonprofit venture that promises to herald an era of viewer-funded documentaries. Since that time, th...
Did McCain plagiarize Wikipedia today?
--CQ Politics: Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis? Not a big deal, but interesting that McCain's staff who do it, given the candi...
All of us, the arbiters of news
--David Carr in the NY Times: All of Us, the Arbiters of News. Well, yes. Excerpt: On Friday, NBC spent the day trying to plug online leaks of the ...
Awaiting the Facebook attitude adjustment
--Natasha Chart at MyDD: Awaiting the Facebook attitude adjustment.We've all heard hand-wringing over what will become of the facebook generation whe...
Giving the public access to knowledge
--San Jose Mercury News: Open access responds to public's hunger for knowledge. Albert Einstein is on YouTube. Plato is on iTunes. And professors at...
Kaltura: open source video
--Kaltura: open-source video from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I've been following Kaltura for about a year now. It offers a terrific open-source platf...
Film fest features nontraditional digital video
--SF Chronicle: The Disposable Film Festival Film features nontraditional digital video. The festival is accepting submissions for the 2009 screeni...
4 tips for shooting live events
--Last month social media consultant and photographer Josh Hallet (Hyku on Flickr) not only took some spectacular photos at BlogHer under difficult l...
Free books on social media
--Chris Brogan: 20 free ebooks about social media. Mashable: 5 books on corporate social media.
23andMe: DNA and blood ties taken to the next level
--Just a quick word about a website and service I had heard about but never really looked into until I sat next to Esther Dyson at the Aspen Instit...
NBC's Olympics tape delay faces end run by fans
--NY Times: Tape Delay by NBC Faces End Run by Online Fans. NBC’s decision about the opening ceremonies sent people to their computers to poke ...
Should advocacy organizations do journalism?
--Fascinating discussion by Dan Gillmor and others recently at the Center for Citizen Media blog: Helping the Almost-Journalists Do Journalism. Exce...
Should advocacy organizations do journalism?
--Fascinating discussion by Dan Gillmor and others recently at the Center for Citizen Media blog: Helping the Almost-Journalists Do Journalism. Excer...
On the decline of the LA Times
--Ann Taylor Fleming reflects on the decline of her hometown newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, in this audio essay (mp3) from PBS's NewsHour.
On the decline of the LA Times
--Ann Taylor Fleming reflects on the decline of her hometown newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, in this audio essay (mp3) from PBS's NewsHour.
Sneaky spam comments
--Mark Glaser at PBS's MediaShift blog: Commenters Mix Conversation, Self-Promoting Links to Defeat Filters.
Sneaky spam comments
--Mark Glaser at PBS's MediaShift blog: Commenters Mix Conversation, Self-Promoting Links to Defeat Filters.
6 steps for creating a social media marketing plan
--Lorna Li of Green Marketing 2.0 (sorry about the hard-to-read white type on black): 6 Steps for Creating a Social Media Marketing Roadmap & Plan.
6 steps for creating a social media marketing plan
--Lorna Li of Green Marketing 2.0 (sorry about the hard-to-read white type on black): 6 Steps for Creating a Social Media Marketing Roadmap & Plan.
At Doggyspace, social networking goes to the dogs
--Associated Press: At Doggyspace, social networking goes to the dogs.
At Doggyspace, social networking goes to the dogs
--Associated Press: At Doggyspace, social networking goes to the dogs.
John Edwards and his 'love child'
--Aaron Barnhart of McClatchy Newspapers writes about the story of Sen. John Edwards and his "love baby," complete with a fabricated photo (abov...
John Edwards and his 'love child'
--Aaron Barnhart of McClatchy Newspapers writes about the story of Sen. John Edwards and his "love baby," complete with a fabricated photo (above) in...
Develop digital innovations in Knight garage
--The Knight Foundation invites participants to develop digital innovations in its "garage." Details: Fifty coaches are standing by at a new men...
Develop digital innovations in Knight garage
--The Knight Foundation invites participants to develop digital innovations in its "garage." Details: Fifty coaches are standing by at a new mentorin...
Follow Olympics on cell phone, computer
--The San Francisco Chronicle reports on the viewing options for the Beijing Olympics.Forget TV. This summer, Olympic enthusiasts have a variety of ...
Follow Olympics on cell phone, computer
--The San Francisco Chronicle reports on the viewing options for the Beijing Olympics. Forget TV. This summer, Olympic enthusiasts have a variety of ...
5 steps to foster innovation in the newsroom
--New at the IdeaLab: Chris O'Brien: Five Steps to Foster Innovation in the Newsroom Dan Gillmor: How Newspapers Can Re-Engage with Communities
5 steps to foster innovation in the newsroom
--New at the IdeaLab: Chris O'Brien: Five Steps to Foster Innovation in the Newsroom Dan Gillmor: How Newspapers Can Re-Engage with Communities
Why Americans hate journalism
--Marty Kaplan at the Huffington Post: Why Americans Hate [Political] Journalism, Part 62. Dead on. To the cable TV pundits, it's all a game. Line up...
Why Americans hate journalism
--Marty Kaplan at the Huffington Post: Why Americans Hate [Political] Journalism, Part 62. Dead on. To the cable TV pundits, it's all a game. Line up...
Paris Hilton for president
--"I'll see you at the debates, bitches." As Jonathan Singer says, "Why is it that Paris Hilton is able to speak more substantive...
McCain's lobbyists
--For a fascinating look at independent journalism, take a look at this interactive rundown of Sen. John McCain's web of lobbyists.
McCain's lobbyists
--For a fascinating look at independent journalism, take a look at this interactive rundown of Sen. John McCain's web of lobbyists.
Paris Hilton for president
--"I'll see you at the debates, bitches." As Jonathan Singer says, "Why is it that Paris Hilton is able to speak more substantively about energy than...
Twitter and the newsroom of the future
--A twin pair of interesting posts at the Idea Lab blog: Chris O'Brien: Is Twitter the Newsroom of the Future? Ryan Sholin: Five Ways to Gather and...
Twitter and the newsroom of the future
--A twin pair of interesting posts at the Idea Lab blog: Chris O'Brien: Is Twitter the Newsroom of the Future? Ryan Sholin: Five Ways to Gather and R...
Top iPhone 3G applications
--The San Jose Mercury News samples some of the 900 applications available for the iPhone 3G and holds up a few that catch the eye, including Pand...
Top iPhone 3G applications
--The San Jose Mercury News samples some of the 900 applications available for the iPhone 3G and holds up a few that catch the eye, including Pandora...
New report: How mobile media can serve the public good
--In December I attended an Aspen Institute roundtable on civic engagement and mobile media held in San Francisco with thought leaders in the mobil...
Deborah Kaplan on Zerofootprint.net
--Interview with ZeroFootprint from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here's a 4 1/2-minute video interview with Deborah Kaplan, executive director of Zerofoo...
Deborah Kaplan on Zerofootprint.net
--Interview with ZeroFootprint from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here's a 4 1/2-minute video interview with Deborah Kaplan, executive director of Zerofootprin...
In Silicon Alley, night life reprogrammed
--The NY Times' Style section has a piece titled In Silicon Alley, night life reprogrammed, with quotes from Dina Kaplan, Sarah Austin, Bre Pett...
Back from the cloud computing roundtable
--I'm back from the Aspen Institute, where last week we held a roundtable on "Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing: Implications for Social Inter...
Back from the cloud computing roundtable
--I'm back from the Aspen Institute, where last week we held a roundtable on "Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing: Implications for Social Interac...
In Silicon Alley, night life reprogrammed
--The NY Times' Style section has a piece titled In Silicon Alley, night life reprogrammed, with quotes from Dina Kaplan, Sarah Austin, Bre Pettis an...
The painful images of war
--Public editor Clark Hoyt in the Sunday NY Times looks at the complicated issue of when news publications should publish images of soldiers who are ...
The painful images of war
--Public editor Clark Hoyt in the Sunday NY Times looks at the complicated issue of when news publications should publish images of soldiers who are ...
Does it matter that McCain is a digital illiterate?
--In McCain, the Analog Candidate, the Sunday NY Times Week in Review looks at whether it matters that Sen. John McCain knows little about compute...
Does it matter that McCain is a digital illiterate?
--In McCain, the Analog Candidate, the Sunday NY Times Week in Review looks at whether it matters that Sen. John McCain knows little about computers....
What's really killing newspapers
--Jack Slater in Slate: What's Really Killing Newspapers. They're no longer the best providers of social currency. Excerpt:A recent Associated Pre...
What's really killing newspapers
--Jack Slater in Slate: What's Really Killing Newspapers. They're no longer the best providers of social currency. Excerpt: A recent Associated Press...
Silicon Valley's Top 50 Web Influencers
--I've been in Aspen all week so missed this announcement from a couple of days ago: NowPublic announces Silicon Valley "MostPublic Index" Identifie...
Silicon Valley's Top 50 Web Influencers
--I've been in Aspen all week so missed this announcement from a couple of days ago: NowPublic announces Silicon Valley "MostPublic Index" Identifies...
Photos of Aspen trip
--Here are 50-plus photos in a Flickr set from my trip this week to Aspen, Colo., including shot of: • former Secretary of State Madeleine Albr...
Photos of Aspen trip
--Here are 50-plus photos in a Flickr set from my trip this week to Aspen, Colo., including shot of: ??? former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright...
A better way to target video ads
--On day 2 of a 4-day Aspen Institute roundtable on cloud computing, Arturo Artom, founder and president of San Francisco-headquartered YourTrumanSho...
A better way to target video ads
--On day 2 of a 4-day Aspen Institute roundtable on cloud computing, Arturo Artom, founder and president of San Francisco-headquartered YourTrumanSho...
Change Congress: The cure
--The Daily Kos on Lawrence Lessig's important new initiative, Change-Congress.org. Yesterday, we reviewed Lawrence Lessig's diagnosis that Congress...
Will Code of Best Practices help video mash-up artists?
--At PBS's MediaShift blog, Mark Glaser conducted a roundtable last week on import of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video release...
Will Code of Best Practices help video mash-up artists?
--At PBS's MediaShift blog, Mark Glaser conducted a roundtable last week on import of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video release...
Change Congress: The cure
--The Daily Kos on Lawrence Lessig's important new initiative, Change-Congress.org. Yesterday, we reviewed Lawrence Lessig's diagnosis that Congress ...
Heading to the Aspen Institute
--I'm flying to Aspen, Colo., early tomorrow to take part in another Aspen Institute roundtable. This one is on Cloud Computing: Implications for ...
Heading to the Aspen Institute
--I'm flying to Aspen, Colo., early tomorrow to take part in another Aspen Institute roundtable. This one is on Cloud Computing: Implications for Soc...
New report: How mobile media can serve the public good
--In December I attended an Aspen Institute roundtable on civic engagement and mobile media held in San Francisco with thought leaders in the mobile ...
ZipClip: Ding, dong, the ringtone is dead
--The most interesting person I met at the Stanford Summit last week was Turkish-born Babur Ozen, whose business card says he's the "boss" of Zip...
ZipClip: Ding, dong, the ringtone is dead
--The most interesting person I met at the Stanford Summit last week was Turkish-born Babur Ozen, whose business card says he's the "boss" of ZipClip...
Fish Phone: text a fish while shopping or dining
--In the Civic Engagement on the Move report that I wrote for the Aspen Institute, I included this passage: Jed Alpert, co-founder and chief exe...
Fish Phone: text a fish while shopping or dining
--In the Civic Engagement on the Move report that I wrote for the Aspen Institute, I included this passage: Jed Alpert, co-founder and chief executiv...
Allvoices: a new global forum for sharing news and info
--Just heard about a new citizen journalism site that launched earlier this month: Allvoices.com, which weaves together traditional and new media sou...
Vimby: Video In My Backyard
--Eli Spector of MediaMobz ??? the new video production marketplace that I'm helping out on ??? points to a new citizen media site geared to youth cu...
MySpace joins shared identity service OpenID
--I had missed this bit of news last week, but heard about it at the Stanford Summit: Reuters: MySpace joins shared identity service OpenID Another m...
50 steps to a consistent social media practice
--Chris Brogan redux: 50 Steps to Establishing a Consistent Social Media Practice.
FriendFeed: follow conversations in one place
--I've been using FriendFeed more and more over the past few weeks (here's my feed), largely at Robert Scoble's suggestion. Now comes Chris Brogan wi...
Making money with your blog
--Paths to making money with your blog from JD Lasica on Vimeo. In this 3-minute video interview, Dana Loesch of Mamalogues.com discusses the "More t...
Another year wiser
--It's my birthday today, so, light blogging.
Citizen expression
--BubbleShare: Share photos - Play some Online Games. Friday evening, I was visited by Ignacio Escribano, founder of the Argentinian citizen media si...
Why don't we see images from the Iraq war?
--Sunday NY Times: 4,000 U.S. Deaths, and a Handful of Images. Excerpt: BAGHDAD ??? The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from ...
Young people prefer reading online
--Sunday NY Times: Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading? (NY Times photo) Books are not Nadia Konyk???s thing. Her mother, hoping to entice he...
The state of women and blogging
--The New York Times covers last weekend's BlogHer conference in San Francisco and the state of women's blogging. (NY Times photo) About a thousand b...
How to save local newspapers: Cellphones
--NY Times Bits blog: How to Save Local Newspapers: Cellphones. Excerpt: Verve Wireless???s mission is to save the local paper by making it mobile. I...
Were you there?
--San Francisco Chronicle: Sweet memories 2.0. Excerpt: You can now share [your memories] with the rest of the world on a new social network called w...
Facebook extends its Web presence
--Catching up on posts ... NY Times: New Tool From Facebook Extends Its Web Presence. (NY Times photo) In a speech at his company???s annual conferen...
Google opens its online encyclopedia
--Information Week: The View from Google Knol. Excerpt: Google???s answer to the Wikipedia encyclopedia, Google Knol (short for Knowledge), launched ...
620,000 people petition Fox News on racism
--In case you missed this, MoveOn.org and ColorofChange.org delivered 620,126 signatures, filling 19 boxes, protesting Fox News' racist and race-ting...
SnagFilms launches
--There's a new kid on the block with last week's launch of SnagFilms, which offers free instant streaming and viral sharing of hundreds of documenta...
Young journalists start to flee slow-changing newsrooms
--At PBS's MediaShift blog, Mark Glaser has a Q&A with Vickey Williams, the director of the Digital Workforce Initiative at the Media Management Cent...
CBS News covers for McCain
--DailyKos: McCain Rewrites History, CBS Writes Off Integrity. YouTube video. The Jed Report has more: Video: McCain '07 Contradicts McCain '08 On Su...
Jory on BlogHer2008
--Wrapping up BlogHer 2008 from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here's a quick video interview I did with Jory Des Jardins, co-founder of BlogHer, on Saturday ni...
Busy week for conferences
--This past week I spoke at the Future of Media Summit and attended BlogHer. Wish I could have attended: ??? NetRoots Nation in Austin. (MyDD coverag...
Photos of BlogHer 2008
--I was at BlogHer only six hours on Saturday so didn't have time to do my usual shoot-everything-in-sight routine. But still managed to capture a fe...
MacRumors publisher starts blogging full time
--Monday NY Times: My son, the blogger. MacRumors publisher goes full time. For eight years, Arnold Kim has been trading gossip, rumor and facts abou...
Why are the New Yorker and other liberal media doing the right's dirty work?
--Don Hazen at AlterNet rightly asks: Why Are the New Yorker, Salon and Other Liberal Media Doing the Right's Dirty Work? (You can see the image of B...
Spot.us funds its first community-funded project
--Spot.us — where the public funds the journalism projects it likes — has reached its financial goal in its first effort at community-funded reportin...
Best social networking apps for the iPhone 3G
--The Apple Insider lists the best social networking applications for the iPhone 3G in Apple's App Store, including AIM, Facebook, Kyte Producer, MyS...
iPhone 3G: A new breed of apps
--John Markoff in the NY Times: On a small screen, just the salient stuff. At look at the new breed of applications for the iPhone 3G. A quick trip t...
iPhone 3G: how to extend battery life
--Reviews are still coming in of the 3G iPhone (twice as fast. half the price). I'll be getting one, in a month or so. Some snippets: SF Chronicle: N...
Congressmen who want to go Web 2.0
--NY Times: In House, tweets fly over Web plan. Here's what has happened in response to a Democratic House leader's proposal: The popular conservativ...
Young actors: The magic of performing arts
--Young actors: The magic of performing arts from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I met Cie Probst, a fellow resident of Pleasanton, Calif., just a week ago, whe...
Speaking at Future of Media Summit
--Two years ago I wrote about attending an interesting new trans-ocean conversation about media trends called the Future of Media Summit. Held along ...
Tech doings
--Over at the People's Software blog, Susan Mernit and Lisa Williams look like they're having some fun out in Boulder, Colo., launching a startup who...
Michael Litz, US CEO of OneWorld.net
--CEO of OneWorld.net from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I've been under the gun with the upcoming relaunch of Ourmedia.org so I have a backlog of video interv...
Excellence in New Communications Awards
--The Society for New Communications Research is has announced a call for entries for the 2008 Excellence in New Communications Awards. The awards ho...
Can’t find a parking spot? Check your smartphone
--Saturday NY Times: Can’t Find a Parking Spot? Check Smartphone. SAN FRANCISCO — The secret to finding the perfect parking spot in congested cities ...
Use Sprout to create your own widgets
--Author/Prof. Howard Rheingold (whom I'll be hiking with in Marin in 2 weeks) has created his first widget: A microlesson on Attention to Attention....
No more shitty YouTube embeds
--Rupert of Twittervlog.tv writes on the Yahoo! videoblogging list the other day: There are a number of reasons I've never loved YouTube: that intrus...
A new book: 'Social Media'
--Katri Lietsala, a professor at the Hypermedia Laboratory of the University of Tampere in Finland, passes along word that she has a new book release...
Amateurs curry favor with YouTube shows
--USA Today: Amateurs curry favor with YouTube shows. Excerpt: The curry ladies are part of a much bigger phenomenon: the growth of Internet video sh...
Has the Internet failed as a storytelling medium?
--Advertising Age: Has the Internet Failed as a Storytelling Medium? There's Hope, Thanks to Three Emerging Tactics.
Who killed the Online Journalism Review and will it live again?
--I wrote scores of columns and articles for the once high-flying independent new media journal, the Online Journalism Review, a publication of USC's...
iPhone 3G reviews: almost perfect
--Salon: The iPhone 3G reviews are in: It's pretty good. Walt Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal: Newer, Faster, Cheaper iPhone 3G. Excerpt: I found...
'Fake’ Steve Jobs gives up parody blog
--Thursday NY Times: ‘Fake’ Steve Jobs Is Giving Up Parody Blog. The once-mysterious blogger known as “Fake Steve Jobs” is turning off his iPhone for...
Social Media Camp begins monthlong tour
--SocialMediaCamp is coming to 7 U.S. cities during the months of July and August with the purpose to bring together the brightest minds in social me...
GasBuddy: Find lower gas prices
--Homely interface, but GasBuddy.com will show you the stations in your area with the lowest gas prices. $4.42 to $4.57 in my area.
Google's Lively helps you chat as a cartoon
--NY Times: Google Introduces a Cartoonlike Method for Talking in Chat Rooms. Excerpt: Google, known for its plain-Jane approach to Web design, has c...
Cops target photographers
--Miami New Times News: Cops Target Photographers. Excerpt: ... The incident is one of at least four that have occurred in Miami-Dade County over the...
Lessig on the blogosphere's 'dangerous cycle'
--In a Beet.TV interview at the recent Personal Democracy Forum, Stanford University Prof. Lawrence Lessig talks about the need for reform in campaig...
Vint Cerf on the future of the Internet
--Beet.TV: Vint Cerf, a computer scientist who is most often called the "father of the Internet," says that the popularity and demand for online vide...
Defining civic media
--Ellen Hume and her colleagues at MIT are working to define civic media and what it means to all of us. Excerpt: Successful civic media invites coll...
The next newsroom in Second Life
--At PBS's IdeaLab blog, Chris O'Brien has this: The Next Newsroom in Second Life.
Getting started with social media
--technoTheory: Getting started with social media.
Great photo on Flickr? Getty Images might pay you for it
--New York Times: Great Photo on Flickr? Getty Images Might Pay You For It. Excerpt: If you are a photographer with high-quality images posted on Yah...
Pop17: surveying Internet pop culture
--Sarah Austin on Pop17 from JD Lasica on Vimeo. In this 5-minute hi-def interview, Sarah Austin talks about her popular new pop culture site, Pop17....
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
--The Center for Social Media at American University's School of Communication has just released an important new report: Code of Best Practices in F...
Review of Samsung SC-HMX10 HD camcorder
--Back in March Samsung sent me its recently released SC-HMX10 HD camcorder to check out. Here are some first impressions: First and above all else, ...
iJustine on her 'lifecasting' experience
--iJustine from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At the first meeting of Intel Insiders at Intel HQ in San Jose the other day, I finally had the chance to meet Ju...
The Facebooker who friended Obama
--Monday NY Times: The Facebooker Who Friended Obama. Excerpt: The campaign’s new-media strategy, inspired by popular social networks like MySpace an...
Check if a site is down or your connection is down
--The Sunday New York Times has this: As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll. In March, Alex Payne, a software engineer for Twitter, created ...
100 personal branding tactics using social media
--Playing catch-up ... this from Chris Brogan the other week: 100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media.
Discover niche social networking
--An observant piece from Katy at I'm Blogging That: Discover Niche Social Networking. Excerpt: For starters, you shouldn’t attempt to target every s...
Big-name brands booking ads on Facebook
--SF Chronicle: Big-name brands booking ads on Facebook. Throw a stapler at a Facebook friend, courtesy of Microsoft Office. Become a fan of Victoria...
How Toyota is using social media
--Web Jungle: Toyota Scion Social Media Strategy. Excerpt: The Toyota Scion social media campaign is amazing for two reasons. First, the casestudy wr...
Flowgram as an explanatory tool
--I haven't used the site Flowgram, created by a San Francisco startup. It's a system that lets a user explain an idea through a series of websites o...
The digital book unfurled
--The Sunday NY Times takes a look at flexible displays for reading books, magazines, newspapers or blogs. This has been a long time coming, and they...
Nonprofits should make use of social networking
--Houston Chronicle: Nonprofits should make use of social networking. Also, a quick look at Technologyforall and DonorHouston.
MAPLight explores influence of money in politics
--Maplight: shining a light on politics and money from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Sean Tanner, research director of MAPLight.org, talks about how the organi...
Social media in the workplace
--Krotscheck.net takes a look at how social media is entering the workplace. Excerpt: The bottom levels or ‘fringes’ of our workforce are starting to...
Hard transition ahead for journalists
--Amy Gahran tells it like it is at the Idea Lab: Swimming Lessons for Journalists. Where will today's journalists find tomorrow's jobs? Here's my ta...
A daily global citizen journalism program
--I haven't checked in on Instablogs.com since it launched in 2005. But the site's coming along nicely, and just launched a new global program: Insta...
Merchants angry at getting yanked by Yelp
--The San Francisco Chron looks at the dustup that takes place when Yelp, the reviews site, takes down positive reviews of businesses that it suspect...
Miro, the democratic media player
--Miro, the democratic media player from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here's an 11-minute video interview I conducted with Nicholas Reville, co-founder and ex...
Balanced living in the digital age
--The San Jose Mercury News' Mike Cassidy interviews Prof. Lawrence Lessig, who takes a month off from the Internet once a year to bring some balance...
Video volunteers: a global effort
--Video volunteers: What if the poorest 1 billion people in the world had their own media industry? Video Volunteers is helping to create a global so...
Amazee: 'the world's first social collaboration platform'
--Amazee from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Dania Gerhardt, co-founder and chief of finance and operations for Amazee.com, discusses "the world's first social ...
3G iPhone users can escape AT&T's contract (but it'll cost)
--San Francisco Chronicle: 3G iPhone users can escape AT&T's contract. AT&T said that the next generation of Apple's touch-screen smart phone will go...
Our paradoxical attitudes toward privacy
--NY Times: Our Paradoxical Attitudes Toward Privacy. We all cherish our privacy. Then we go and divulge everything about ourselves on Facebook, spri...
Intel Insiders: Social media, bunny suits and the global enterprise
--Spent the day Tuesday at Intel's headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., for the debut of a new social media advisory group called -- a bit too self-i...
Is Google making us stupid?
--This piece in the Atlantic — Is Google making us Stupid? — by Nicholas Carr is kicking up some dust in the blogosphere. I'll get to meet the author...
The mobilized mob does as it pleases
--Nancy Scola at techPresident: The Mobilized Mob Does as It Pleases.
People-funded Journalism
--I have a new entry at the IdeaLab blog about people-funded journalism and the rise of community- and foundation-supported news sources.
Weezer goes viral
--Weezer sends up viral videos — and goes viral in the process. From BL Ochman: Does Viral Video Translate to the Bottom Line? Ask Weezer. What made ...
FixYa: answers to your tech questions
--Just heard about FixYa: Tech Support, Manuals & Troubleshooting for Consumers. Says Mansha: FixYa is an online destination where people can find an...
6 social media lists to watch
--Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester: Six Social Media Lists to Watch, touching on the finance, insurance, auto industries and more.
Love and Facebook
--Julia Boriss in the Indiana Daily Student: Love and Facebook. Excerpt: Every time I log onto Facebook I become increasingly concerned about the sta...
'YouTube videos we dig'
--The San Francisco Chronicle's Datebook columnists offer up lists of their Favorite YouTube videos, ranging from JFK's 1960 I am a Berliner speech t...
Using social networks to reduce email clutter
--NY Times: Luis Suarez of I.B.M., who lives in the Canary Islands, says that with the help of social networking tools, he has cut down sharply on hi...
Society for New Communications Research taking on new members
--The Society for New Communications Research is looking for new members. (I'm a senior fellow.) From their latest announcement: As we continue to gr...
BlogHer coming up
--From July 18-20, BlogHer, the Web's top guide to blogs by women, will be hosting its third annual conference in downtown San Francisco at the Westi...
Kiwibox: youth-created media
--I was invited to meet with Lin Dai, the CEO of Kiwibox but couldn't make it work. Still, sounds like they're doing some interesting things with soc...
Robert Greenwald spearheads political truthtelling campaign
--Sunday NY Times: Political Freelancers Use Web to Join the Attack. The video blasted across the Internet, drawing political blood from Senator John...
How the Internet is changing politics
--iStrategyLabs has video interviews from Washington, DC, on the topic of how technology is changing the way politics works. Those interviewed includ...
Harnessing social media to find a cure
--Chris O'Brien in the San Jose Mercury News: Harnessing social media to find cure. Earlier this month, a group of local technology executives and th...
'Launch a fiery campaign to reinvent newspapers'
--Syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. in the Miami Herald: Launch a fiery campaign to reinvent newspapers. Good, and essential, idea (which some o...
Leah Culver on the sharing network Pownce
--Leah Culver on Pownce from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At Supernova last week I caught up with Leah Culver about her way-cool file-sharing tool, called Pow...
Global Voices Citizen Media Summit kicks off
--Rebecca MacKinnon: Global Voices Citizen Media Summit kicks off in Budapest. Trying to keep my globe-trotting to a minimum, but hope the gathering ...
Global Voices Citizen Media Summit kicks off
--Rebecca MacKinnon: Global Voices Citizen Media Summit kicks off in Budapest. Trying to keep my globe-trotting to a minimum, but hope the gathering ...
The state of online video ads
--At PBS's MediaShift, Mark Glaser takes a look at the state of online video ads. Says Mark: They have been trumpeted as the next big thing in online...
The state of online video ads
--At PBS's MediaShift, Mark Glaser takes a look at the state of online video ads. Says Mark: They have been trumpeted as the next big thing in o...
Where Americans stand
--From DailyKos today: 66% of Americans support health coverage for all, even if it means raising taxes; 76% of Americans think global warming in "a ...
Where Americans stand
--From DailyKos today: 66% of Americans support health coverage for all, even if it means raising taxes; 76% of Americans think global warming in &qu...
Intel Insiders: Social media, bunny suits and the global enterprise
--Spent the day Tuesday at Intel's headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., for the debut of a new social media advisory group called -- a bit too s...
The rise of independent nonprofit journalism
--It's worth pointing here to Pro Publica: Journalism in the public interest, which has been in the news the past few days. The site -- an independen...
The rise of independent nonprofit journalism
--It's worth pointing here to Pro Publica: Journalism in the public interest, which has been in the news the past few days. The site -- an indep...
Harnessing social media to find a cure
--Chris O'Brien in the San Jose Mercury News: Harnessing social media to find cure. Earlier this month, a group of local technology executives a...
Republican tied to impropriety in CA-11 election
--I live in California's most closely contested swing district: CA-11, in the San Francisco East Bay. I have a Jerry McNerney sign on my front lawn. ...
Republican tied to impropriety in CA-11 election
--I live in California's most closely contested swing district: CA-11, in the San Francisco East Bay. I have a Jerry McNerney sign on my front l...
danah boyd on communities' info needs
--From the Knight Foundation blog: Youth digital culture scholar danah boyd is one of the 15 members of the new Knight Commission on the Information ...
danah boyd on communities' info needs
--From the Knight Foundation blog: Youth digital culture scholar danah boyd is one of the 15 members of the new Knight Commission on the Information ...
Follow Personal Democracy Forum online
--I wish I were in New York so that I could attend the Personal Democracy Forum again. Today and tomorrow the gathering will tackle "Rebooting the Sy...
Follow Personal Democracy Forum online
--I wish I were in New York so that I could attend the Personal Democracy Forum again. Today and tomorrow the gathering will tackle "Rebooting t...
Delaying news in the Internet era
--Monday NY Times: Delaying news in the era of the Internet. What happens when someone reports Tim Russert's death on Wikipedia before NBC News repor...
Delaying news in the Internet era
--Monday NY Times: Delaying news in the era of the Internet. What happens when someone reports Tim Russert's death on Wikipedia before NBC News ...
Nokia's twin new pushes
--Monday NY Times: Nokia wants to transform itself into a next-generation entertainment company. Last August, Nokia, the world’s largest cellphone ma...
Nokia's twin new pushes
--Monday NY Times: Nokia wants to transform itself into a next-generation entertainment company. Last August, Nokia, the world???s largest cellphone ...
AP, blogger resolve copyright dispute, but questions remain
--Editor & Publisher: AP and Blogger Come to Agreement on Use -- But Questions Remain. paidContent.org via Washngton Post: Drudge Retort's Retort To ...
AP, blogger resolve copyright dispute, but questions remain
--Editor & Publisher: AP and Blogger Come to Agreement on Use -- But Questions Remain. paidContent.org via Washngton Post: Drudge Retort's R...
Silicon Valley leaders debut YouTube medical channel
--From a news release this week: YouTube and The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) today collaboratively launched a comprehensive Intern...
Silicon Valley leaders debut YouTube medical channel
--From a news release this week: YouTube and The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) today collaboratively launched a comprehensive Intern...
Heaton: 11 billion videos viewed in April
--Terry Heaton at Pomoblog: Video is the growth engine of the Web, and while that’s good news for broadcasters trying to stem the tide of red ink, Go...
AP, MBA chief to meet over copyright fight
--Robert Cox, president of the Media Bloggers Association, has a post at the MBA site about the group's role in discussions with the Associated Press...
Heaton: 11 billion videos viewed in April
--Terry Heaton at Pomoblog: Video is the growth engine of the Web, and while that???s good news for broadcasters trying to stem the tide of red ink, ...
The Internet never forgets
--From Terry Heaton: A new responsibility for journalists? Mike Orren of Pegasus News here in Dallas is asking important questions about journalistic...
The Internet never forgets
--From Terry Heaton: A new responsibility for journalists? Mike Orren of Pegasus News here in Dallas is asking important questions about journalistic...
Hayden Black on creating your own webisode series
--'Goodnight Burbank' from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here's a 5-minute video interview I did with Hayden Black, the mastermind behind the Internet video co...
Hayden Black on creating your own webisode series
--'Goodnight Burbank' from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here's a 5-minute video interview I did with Hayden Black, the mastermind behind the In...
Egg Timer 2: A timer for your Mac desktop
--I just switched from a PC to a Mac Pro for my main computer, and I'm discovering all sorts of little delights. Here's another one: I often get so d...
Egg Timer 2: A timer for your Mac desktop
--I just switched from a PC to a Mac Pro for my main computer, and I'm discovering all sorts of little delights. Here's another one: I ofte...
Fixing investigative reporting
--Mark Glaser at PBS's MediaShift looks at an effort to fix investigative reporting, with a focus on the new the Investigative Reporting Workshop at ...
Fixing investigative reporting
--Mark Glaser at PBS's MediaShift looks at an effort to fix investigative reporting, with a focus on the new the Investigative Reporting Worksho...
Audio in Skype
--I've used Skype with my PC on and off for years, but with my switchover to a Mac full time, it wasn't working for me — at first. A few minutes of t...
Audio in Skype
--I've used Skype with my PC on and off for years, but with my switchover to a Mac full time, it wasn't working for me ??? at first. A few ...
AP, MBA chief to meet over copyright fight
--Robert Cox, president of the Media Bloggers Association, has a post at the MBA site about the group's role in discussions with the Associated ...
LinkedIn: the social network for professionals
--The New York Times takes a look at LinkedIn, the social network for professionals. On Wednesday, LinkedIn will announce that it has raised $53 mill...
LinkedIn: the social network for professionals
--The New York Times takes a look at LinkedIn, the social network for professionals. On Wednesday, LinkedIn will announce that it has raised $53 mill...
A photo-sharing site with active participation
--From Katherine Boehret in the Wall Street Journal: A Photo-Sharing Site Where Active Participation Is Allowed An Email Invite Lets Anyone Add to Al...
A photo-sharing site with active participation
--From Katherine Boehret in the Wall Street Journal: A Photo-Sharing Site Where Active Participation Is Allowed An Email Invite Lets Anyone Add to Al...
Firefox 3.0 looks ready for prime time
--Just downloaded and installed Firefox 3. Looks slick, now gotta test it out. So far, Summize shows only thumbs ups from the Twitterstream. And from...
Firefox 3.0 looks ready for prime time
--Just downloaded and installed Firefox 3. Looks slick, now gotta test it out. So far, Summize shows only thumbs ups from the Twitterstream. And from...
How citizen journalism is changing political reporting
--Citizen reporting threatens the club from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Anyone who has followed the 2008 presidential campaign knows that a few key media fla...
How citizen journalism is changing political reporting
--Citizen reporting threatens the club from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Anyone who has followed the 2008 presidential campaign knows that a few key media fla...
Can Obama shred the rumors?
--The current issue of Time magazine: Can Obama overcome the Internet's rumor machinery? Excerpt: The Obama campaign has built what might best be des...
Britannica opens its online pages
--San Jose Mercury News: Britannica opens its online pages. Pressed by the success of Wikipedia, the site invites the public to contribute articles, ...
Can Obama shred the rumors?
--The current issue of Time magazine: Can Obama overcome the Internet's rumor machinery? Excerpt: The Obama campaign has built what might best b...
AP badly mistaken on Drudge Retort
--Mark Glaser at PBS's MediaShift: The AP is wrong, wrong, wrong with its takedown notice threat to the Drudge Retort and its shot across the bow of ...
AP badly mistaken on Drudge Retort
--Mark Glaser at PBS's MediaShift: The AP is wrong, wrong, wrong with its takedown notice threat to the Drudge Retort and its shot across the bo...
Britannica opens its online pages
--San Jose Mercury News: Britannica opens its online pages. Pressed by the success of Wikipedia, the site invites the public to contribute articles, ...
Future of Civic Media images
--Here are some images I took at the MIT Media Lab on Thursday and Friday at the Future of Civic Media conference.
Future of Civic Media images
--Here a