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May 31, 2006
Steve and Jonny Warhol
OK, actually it's Steve Garfield and Jonny Goldstein: Two multimadness moguls together at a Boston Media Makers meeting. Original photo and subsequent manipulation by Steve.
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May 26, 2006
Construction workers in Hell's Kitchen, NYC
There are a couple of high rises going up next to my building, so there are a lot of these guys on the block.
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Hell's Kitchen High-Rise
A fact of life in NYC is no matter where you live, there are good odds someone is going to build a skyscraper next to your building. They are building two next to me at the moment.
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May 24, 2006
Mind Mapping at Beyond Broadcast
I did three big Mind Maps in the video games session at Beyond Broadcast in Boston a couple of weeks ago. When I finished, I took some pics of the diagrams, but I lost my camera on the way back to NYC (cheap camera, but still a total bummer), so this image is all I've got left. I gave the originals to a fellow who was in the videogames session, so if I can track him down, maybe he can take some pics and upload them. They were cool as heck, honest.
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May 23, 2006
Dumper or Dumpee?
Over the last month, on top of my work with BX21, I've been working as a freelance producer for iVillage.com a woman-oriented website. Basically I've been doing woman (and man) on the street interviews on topics ranging from bad fashion choices, to mental health treatment options, to "Are you the dumper or the dumpee?" These gigs remind me how much I enjoy interviewing people. I love the kind of focused interaction that happens in an interview.
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May 15, 2006
Editing the Night Away
I'm compiling student videos for our bx21.org screening at Sony Wonder Technology Lab tomorrow. Some great stuff, varying from funny, to action packed, to serious. It's been fun getting to know these Bronx teens. Even the ones I haven't had much personal interaction with, I feel like I know from watching their videos.
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May 12, 2006
Beyond Broadcast Conference Notes
Some notes from the Beyond Broadcast Conference. This is the talking heads day. Tomorrow will be more
discussion oriented. These notes are sketchy and incomplete. All from after lunch sessions. I missed the morning sessions. Feel free to skip this post if you're not a participatory media geek. It's more of a scrapbook for me. But if you want to geek out on it, fine.
Just heard from Brendon, the Blogger in Chief for Radio Open Source. I'm a big fan of the show/blog hosted by Chris Lydon.
Tom Geraci speaking now from Gather.com. He's talking about what public media can deliver that swarms of individuals can't. So what happens as things move from centralized media to individuals creating media? How to find good content on the blogosphere. Hard to comparison shop for blogs. Hard to evaluate trust. Hard for users to coneect over shared interests.
Throw out everthing you think you know about your audience, and realize this is a way to connect independent people to each other.
Intentionality.
If you can give the community tools to manage itself and the space to use it.....
Don't be afraid to be a dictator.
It is a rhetorical space and the power of a concentrated if not singular voice that has something to say is still the driver.
Contributors. Challenges.
Gather is social media. Community where people create, rate, review, connect. Digglike?
Listen up----Video production, network of youth media organizations. 117 of them in North America.
Share support, resources, provides funding, help w/film fests. Much of listen ups media distributed via "Public media." listenup.org. This is so cool! The youth media program I run should connect to this!
It's curated by the young people who use the listen up website. Kind of like a dating site. Kids can't email each other directly, for safety purposes. Young peoples' last names and locations not revealed. Young people have their own private space on the blog where they can get support and converse. Listen Up gets media from all over the world. "A Call for Tolerance."
Power of networks. EBAY. Omidyar Network. Mission based investment network. 400 Million $ to invest in for profit and not for profit sectors. Group based collaborative tool to make investment decisions.
Ack. Falling asleep. I woke up too early to come up from NYC. OK, this Omidyar thing actually sounds pretty cool. They fund a lot of interesting projects.
Now there's a 15 foot tall guy on a videoscreen behind the panel asking them questions. Intertwining of real world and internet world.
Balance between "Cool and good."
Online digital divide.
Distribution isn't the problem, attention is the problem, for public media, attention not a problem, monetization the problem.
Networked individualism.
Need for investigative reporting, big budget Video, still exists.
Don't have to be slick to be popular. Tell compelling stories.
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May 11, 2006
Vloggercon 2006: Educators----The Preview
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Mutant Ears
I'm wearing the Totally Amazing!!! Mutant Ears at the 2006 at the ITP Spring Show. More info on the Ears here.
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May 08, 2006
Wrung out
Whew! I'm officially wrung out. Beat. Exausted. Time to dissolve. Gently. Ooze into sleeeeeeep.
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May 05, 2006
Podcast for Teachers, back from China, Feministing
Busy day. Uploaded videos to bx21.org all morning, did an interview with podcastforteachers.org in the afternoon, while hanging with Marc Maleh who just got back from China, then met a woman who blogs for a living at Feministing.com. Crazy warm May NYC day. People sitting on the sidewalk having a smoke it was so nice out.
Talked to a taxi driver who was driving a Toyota minivan. He said that it got twice the milage of the standard Ford Sedan. The Fords get 8 miles to the gallon.
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May 03, 2006
What I look at during my commute
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May 01, 2006
The Erzsi and Jonny Show 10PM tonight
Channel 56 in Manhattan, or at mnn.org streaming live.
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