New Web sites to store public’s digital content
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By Michael Bazeley
Mercury News
Tapping into a growing interest in so-called grass-roots media, two Web sites launched this week that aim to become repositories and clearinghouses for a wide variety of digital content created by the public.
Ourmedia.org, started by Pleasanton writer J.D. Lasica and Walnut […]

John Battelle has released some plans for this year’s Web 2.0 conference. I noticed that Rael and crew borrowed several of John’s innovations - for thsis year’s Etech - notions like ‘High Order Bits’ and ‘From the Labs’.
Anyway Weeb 2.0 rocked last year - even if they only had a slot for us the […]

Eric has just gotten Warner Bros to sponsor him and his posse’s podcasting.
I guess he beat out Adam Curry.
Congrats to Eric.

So I awoke this morning to find us BOTH at #3 on DayPop - with a bullet and in the #5 position and dropping.
Then I went to the site and it’s down - as we’re moving it onto new machines and we don’t got no staging server. Thus is the ways of open source, […]

So Jeremy Allaire talked about Brightcove today at PC Forum. Hidden between the hyperbole, rehashed models and ever hopeful attitude were nuggets of brilliance that I wanted to highlight to you folks. And sorry for the shitty photo - J. I’m clearly NOT a photographer.
Up until now - all video on demand interfaces […]

Where there’s money, there’s opportunities.

One of the focus areas at PC Forum is the U.S. Health market. Needless to say many of our problems in health, are not relevant outside the U.S. - but I’m sure there’s room for improvement elsewhere.
But for now - the $1.4+ Trillion market and it’s absurd inefficiencies and how […]

So I’m sitting here at PC Forum listening to Joe Kraus (JotSpot) talk to Marten Mickos - the CEO of MySQL. Joe is finding out all about MySQL’s dual license model and their version of the ‘honor system’.
It would be super coolio if JotSpot adopted a similar model.
JotSpot is a platform and offers developers […]

God bless MySql (setup properly).
God bless any programmer involved in this project.
God bless all the end-users pounding on the site - at this very moment.
Ah woe be it to mean Mr. Mustard - the error code I dread:
Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /home/ourmedia/htdocs/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 31
Too many connections
Yes indeed - setting up MySQL ‘properly’ […]

Here is Dick Hardt (Sxip Networks) and Doc Searls (god-head blogger.)
I can’t tell you what we were meeting on - but by the next DIDW (Digital Identity world) I can.

Made it to PC Forfum.
I haven’t been here in over 10 years - maybe 15 - I can’t remember. It’smy thrid show in a row. Lots of coolio meetings which will have ramifications on the world’s future.