Are eyeballs back?

NY Times: Eyeballs Are Back, or Maybe Not.

The blog pioneer Jason Calacanis, who sold his Weblogs Inc. to America Online in October, took exception this week to an article in Business 2.0 by Om Malik, a technology journalist and blogger. ...

How newspapers can survive in the Internet age

In Slashdot, Robin Miller tells newspapers how they need to adapt or die. Getting interactive and more local are major keys.

HamptonRoads.tv: a peck on the cheek for multimedia

The Virginian-Pilot, the largest daily metropolitan newspaper in the state of Virginia, has launched a standalone video site called HamptonRoads.tv.

Whoa, that's interesting, coming from a mainstream newspaper. Pretty basic stuff, but a tentative embrace of journalism's multimedia future.

Interviewed on Evil Genius Chronicles podcast

Dave Slusher of the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast (worth listening to on the basis of the title alone) interviewed me at the Portable Media Expo down in the Southland (actually, east of LA) on Nov. 11 and just posted the episode. About halfway through I babble on about citizens media, Ourmedia, a new Learning Center, and other stuff.

Mostly, I talk about how short-form video is going to reign supreme on the video iPod and other portable video devices. Here's the mp3 and Dave's blog post. As Dave says, "I have a greater affinity for citizen-produced media than media-produced media." Right on, bro.

Stay tuned for a video about "Rocketboom" later today.