ChapmanLogic

September 2, 2004

Who's making media now?

What happens when there are more cameras than people?Check the photos out on Flickr! bottom-up media at RNC critical massphotos from friday August 27, 2004 Union Square New York City with RNC in town... I was in North East corner...

July 9, 2004

Personal Media versus Mass Media

Omar posts regarding discrepancies between what he and other Iraqi bloggers are experiencing first-hand and what's reported in mainstream media (via Buzzmachine): It seems that some people in the major media still think they’re the only ones who have eyes...

May 4, 2004

Zen Master Wonkette

Ana Marie Cox, the Wonkette, in her Washington Post online chat (registration required), punches some words of wisdom out of her Powerbook. From the Transcript: Denver, Colo.: Blogging seems to be a good fit to your personality and subject, do...

April 6, 2004

what happens when everyone makes media?

What happens, let's say, in high schools, when the tv and film production departments are as popular as theater and music departments currently are, and everyone is filming all the time. When a school with 2000 students has five student-produced...

December 23, 2003

quotes from photo industry RE digital consumers

from Digital Era Not All Negative for Photo Shops, by Ellis Mnyandu, via Yahoo: ..."The truth is that the majority of people don't want to come home from vacation and sit at their computers reviewing and printing all those shots,"...

November 11, 2003

Media Reform Conference

November 7-9, over 1,400 people gathered in Madison, Wisconsin for the National Conference on Media Reform, "a groundbreaking forum to democratize the debate over media policymaking." Danny Schechter, of MediaChannel.org, reports from the scene, "Outside it's cold enough to stop...

October 30, 2003

Participatory Media Now!

Thanks to Andrew Ó Baoill (funferal) for the link to Howard Rheingold's piece from In These Times | From the Screen to the Streets. A call to action, Rheingold says: Activists should now concentrate their efforts in this last sphere--...

October 21, 2003

Tips for Sustaining Bottom Up Growth

Howard Dean's campaign manager, Joe Trippi, has some useful tips for building a campaign (or company). More than tips, these are cornerstones of participatory media frameworks. From Fast Company, Joe Trippi's Killer App, by Linda Tischler: -Design the organization to...

Showtime tapping into prosumer desires

From the Arizona Daily Wildcat, by Julie Wetmore: "Freshman Diaries," a 12-part series documenting the trials and triumphs of freshmen experiencing their first year of college, is being filmed on the University of Arizona campus...More than 250 applications, from a...

October 20, 2003

Exchanging the pen for the camera

Humans are social beings. Traditionally, writing books and scripts has not been very social. Writer directs movie and enjoys human contact... From The Philidelphia Inquirer, by Steven Rea: "As a person who's primarily a novelist, I'd have thought that I'd...

Satellite Broadband and Local Economies

Two interesting articles regarding satellite broadband and the potential benefits to local rural economies. This one from Europe: The so-called digital divide that excludes rural communities from the benefits of broadband access could be overcome by using a combination of...

October 14, 2003

Economic Models for Blogs

A few interesting posts regarding Google's AdSense and other ways prosumers (i.e., nano-publishers) can earn some money doing what they do. Mixed opinion of AdSense, but I think it is clear that there will soon be sustainable models for prosumer...

Camcorders in Activists' Hands

From MediaRights, by Sara Stuart: Activists often do not have the resources or the time to produce, edit, and distribute documentaries. However, they continue to use video cameras in their struggles for change. Activists have found that video can influence...

UFCW Strike Photoblog

Local TV news broadcasters have some serious competition in the form of prosumer publishing, like this moblog covering the UFCW Strike (via PicturePhoning)....

Esther Dyson nicely sums up one of the problems emerging in the prosumer media world: The first magic of blogging, of course, is that everyone can self-publish. Everyone has a voice. The tools makes that possible. But the next magic,...

July 21, 2003

Mob Rule Goes Mainstream

New York Post's Sara Stewart covers last Wednesday's real world Flash Mob gathering in New York at the Otto Tootsi Plohound store in SoHo. Jessy DelFino blogs about the event here and David at Creamy.com links to his video at...

July 8, 2003

The Emerging Market of Media Prosumers

Sony, Sharp, Canon and JVC have agreed on a consumer High-Definition video format that retains the use of existing Digital Video tape formats. This benefits consumers because vendors will be able to use the video camera's existing mechanical parts, keeping...

April 4, 2003

Screenwriter Turns Filmmaker

My Personal Digital Cinema Revolution, by Dale Launer See, I could tell you even more stories, infuriating, insulting stories, enough to fill an entire book. But take my word for it -- I was fed up. Fed up enough to...