Ourmedia in the news

Ourmedia has received coverage in these publications and blogs:

  • Post Modern Reporter, Feb. 15, 2007, Citizens TV. "Ourmedia allows you to share your user created content, but they'll also host it at the Internet Archive for free as long as you're willing to share your work with a global audience. They even plan to release an API in the near future that'll allow programmers to build less text-centric interfaces for accessing the content shared on the Ourmedia platform."

  • Journalistopia, Jan. 17, 2007, Web sites for citizen journalism techniques, tutorials. "Ourmedia Personal Media Learning Center - A great resource containing interviews with citizen media pioneers, summaries of media law and more."

  • SplashCast, Jan. 17, 2007, 9 Video Hosting TOS Compared "JD Lasica from Ourmedia and Brian Satterfield from TechSoup have posted a fantastic overview of the Terms of Service from 9 popular video hosting sites on the web. These guys deserve big thanks for compiling this information and sharing it with the rest of us."

  • AlwaysOn magazine, winter 2006: Ourmedia is "open content heaven."

  • Rabble News, Oct. 6, 2006, Should corporations control online discussion? "Ourmedia is the open source equivalent of YouTube."

  • Associated Press, Aug. 14, 2006, Video sites offer haven for Katrina experiences. "Sites like YouTube.com, Ourmedia.org and Clipshack.com make it easy for users to watch and share original videos at no charge."

  • Alternet, April 27, 2006, Buying the Internet, $1 million at a time. "Independent artists and filmmakers who can't afford to pay the telecoms, or at least influence them with deep-pocket incentives, have no say in how their content reaches audiences. Currently, it's a fairly level playing field, and with services like YouTube, Ourmedia and others, it's getting easier all the time for content creators to get their work out there."

  • The Pacer, Feb. 21, 2006, Top five “sweet" websites. "You can share your files with other users and view their files. This site helps make media free for everyone."

  • Business Week, Nov. 28, 2005, So you want to be an Internet star. "Your Net provider likely gives you space you could use, but if your podcast catches fire, it might strain the bandwidth and get you in trouble. A better option is Ourmedia.org, which hosts your podcast and stores archived shows for free."

  • Toronto Globe & Mail, Nov. 2, 2005, Sharing home movies with the world. "Graham Walker, who posts his travel videos to Ourmedia.org, views that as a benefit. Some of his videos made during a trip to Tibet capture the changes in that country as China exerts a greater impact on its culture."

  • New York Times, Oct. 27, 2005, Now Playing: Your Home Video. "At least two sites, Blip.tv and OurMedia.org, promise more permanence by uploading a copy of each video submitted to the Internet Archive."

  • Best of Blogs, Oct. 24, 2005, Ourmedia a Best of Blogs finalist. Ourmedia is named one of the top 100 blogs in the world, out of a field of 2,500+ nominated blogs.

  • Associated Press, Oct. 6, 2005. Traditional media experiment with citizens as news producers (article no longer online). "It sort of requires a rethinking of the entire traditional news process, and that's hard for news organizations to do," said J.D. Lasica, a veteran journalist who co-founded Ourmedia.org, where citizens freely exchange digital works. "In citizen journalism the traditional gatekeeper role of the journalist is thrown out the window."

  • Indymedia, Oct. 6, 2005, Our media - another approach. "Anyone looking to jump ship might like to check out Ourmedia - it's far from what's needed to replace Indymedia [but] it has great potential."

  • Slyck News, Sept. 18, 2005, Podcasting - New Era in Content?. "Some podcasting services, including Ourmedia, will host the podcast files."

  • WorldChanging, Aug. 13, 2005, Lessons of Ourmedia. "By promising permanent free hosting and almost no restrictions on media, Ourmedia has the potential to become the cornerstone of an alternative media system. It's also suggestive of where activism may go in the months and years to come."

  • Hindustan Times, India, Aug. 13, 2005, Content to share? Go to Ourmedia.org. "It's a website intended to promote the personal-media revolution, supporting individual content creators (writers, podcasters, videographers, photographers and the like)."

  • BBC News, Aug. 10, 2005, Citizens do media for themselves. "There is a big transition happening between traditional, top down media and bubble-up, grassroots, emerging media," says JD Lasica, co-founder of Ourmedia.org, a finalist in the e-inclusion category of the UN's World Summit Awards. "We want to help that bottom part emerge and flourish."

  • Podtech.net, Aug. 5, 2005, a 10-minute podcast with Ourmedia co-founder JD Lasica.

  • Wired News, July 20, 2005, Bigwigs Seek Short-Form Scorseses. "We're moving from a text-based internet to multimedia internet," said J.D. Lasica, executive director of Ourmedia, a free site for posting video. "So video is becoming a full-blown phenomenon on the internet."

  • Boston Globe, July 18, 2005, All of the bandwidth you'll ever need. "With corporate financial and technical support, Ourmedia could become the Internet's richest and most user-friendly multimedia site -- and for publishers, definitely the cheapest. It's such an appealing vision that it's sure to enrich someone."

  • O'Reilly Network, July 15, 2005, An Interview with Ourmedia.org's J.D. Lasica. "Sharing will be everywhere. It's the next chapter of the World Wide Web."

  • IT Conversations: Sound Policy, July 15, 2005, JD Lasica, co-founder, Ourmedia.org. A conversation about Ourmedia and related matters with podcaster, blogger and intellectual property attorney Denise Howell.

  • Wired News, July 14, 2005, Man Cleans Freezer, Film at 11 . "At Ourmedia, you upload the screenshots and videos to your new account. If you want to, you can assign a Creative Commons flexible copyright license to the work, which will allow others to remix your content."

  • G'Day World (Australian podcast), July 7, 2005, On the Pod with JD Lasica. 64-minute show includes background on Ourmedia.

  • Creative Commons, July 5, 2005, Ourmedia Q&A. "Recently, Ourmedia was nominated as the U.S. finalist for the UN World Summit Awards."

  • BBC Radio, June 28, 2005, A look at Ourmedia. Host Rhod Sharp interviews Ourmedia executive director J.D. Lasica for five minutes about 0245 into the "Up All Night" program.

  • Forbes, June 21, 2005, Citizens Media Entrepreneurs. "The successful citizens media sites will mimic Ourmedia.org, a portal which offers 'free storage and free bandwidth for your videos, audio files, photos, text or software. Forever. No catches.'"

  • BusinessWeek Online, June 20, 2005, Tour the Collectives of Cyberspace. "Just emerging now is a raft of citizen-media sites, which encourage people to offer up their own stories. .. Some, such as Ourmedia, still in test mode, even let you upload video files."

  • TechWeb, June 17, 2005, Ourmedia Looks To Bring Video To Social Networking. "Ourmedia plans to roll out a social-networking service called Groups, which would let people create their own private circles for sharing and discussing their videos or other creative works."

  • CNET News.com, June 14, 2005, Video content set free on Web. "'We see an opportunity to help kick-start the grassroots media revolution,' said J.D. Lasica,"

  • The Guardian (UK), June 9, 2005, Remixing the blogosphere. "Ourmedia.org's free membership allows you to upload any legal content and surf for other people's. The site uses apparently infinite storage space and bandwidth provided by the Internet Archive."

  • EContent magazine, June 9, 2005, Ourmedia.org Empowers Content Producers. "The eventual goal of Ourmedia is to create a set of standards and tools so that users can have easy access to an open source toolset and other grassroots sites can work with the Ourmedia standards and APIs to create a network of grassroots media sites."

  • Richmond Times Dispatch, May 25, 2005, Create, share, get noticed. "Ourmedia provides free disk space and bandwidth for video, music, photos, audio clips and other personal media. ... Even if you've yet to become a media creator, it can be fun to see what other people are doing."

  • Internet ACTU, April 28, 2005, Les médias citoyens sont l’avenir des médias. A Q&A, in French, about the power of citizens media.

  • Online Journalism Review, April 26, 2005, Search engines, startup media sites dream of becoming video hubs."Once people see what they can do with media, they get very excited about it. They want to be engaged and not be passive consumers of Big Media content."

  • Diane Rehm Show on NPR, April 12, 2005, The Future of Radio. Ourmedia co-founder J.D. Lasica is interviewed about podcasting and grassroots media.

  • Slate, April 7, 2005, The Archivist. "Ourmedia, a project launched two weeks ago, offers free, unlimited, permanent storage of your videos, photos, Word files, podcasts—anything that's not porn and not covered by someone else's copyright."

  • Social software weblog, April 5, 2005, Video takes off in social software land. "The recent launch of Ourmedia as an entirely free web host repository and community for citizen video … seem[s] to herald video’s arrival on the social software scene in a big way."

  • Steve Rosenbaum, Indiewire, April 2, 2005, New shared content sites. "Building a sharing registry now will create audience and access as content sharing continues to grow."

  • MSNBC.com, March 28, 2005, Vlogs: Next big thing or niche experiment? "An interesting new place to post video has now launched: the long-awaited Ourmedia.org, ... an open-source citizen-journalist project."

  • San Jose Mercury News, March 24, 2005, New Web sites to store public's digital content. "What would you give to see video of your great-grandmother?" Kahle said. "I'd give a lot. These may not be the scholarly texts of the next generation. But this is compelling nonetheless."

  • Mike Davidson's blog, March 23, 2005, Thoughts on Ourmedia, Day 2. "This is the most ambitious attempt at free media we’ve ever seen."

  • Associated Press, March 23, 2005, New site offers free video hosting.

  • Journalism.co.uk, March 22, 2005, Grassroots media site goes stellar from the start. "People are now realising that there are alternatives to top-down, passive consumer culture."

  • Digital Lifestyles, March 22, 2005, Interview with JD Lasica. "We'll be working with Jon Udell and Doug Kaye to devise a standard for what we're calling a media clipping service.

  • IT Conversations, March 21, 2005, Podcast with Ourmedia's founders.

  • Seth Godin's blog, March 21, 2005, End of discussion. "What Ourmedia does is power the long tail."

  • David Bollier's On the Commons, March 21, 2005, A Major New Online Commons is Born. "It's not every day that you get to watch the birth of a new media genre. This could be such a moment."

  • Lost Remote, March 21, 2005, Ourmedia project launches, "This is one of the brightest ideas I've seen in awhile."

  • eWeek, March 16, 2005, Peer-to-Peer Is Here to Stay. "OurMedia.org aims to be a place for people to swap and share what they've created. Think of it as blogging with video and audio, only a little better organized than the mishmash of (mostly text-only) sites up today."

  • New York Times, Feb. 24, 2005, Tools to Add Moving Images To Online Musings. "Ourmedia, using storage space donated by the Internet Archive, plans to begin a free service … that allows posting and viewing video within minutes."

  • Business Week magazine, Jan. 3, 2004: Let a Million Videos Bloom Online. "Ourmedia [is being] backed by a who's who of bloggers and grassroots media advocates. Intended to be a showplace for digital content, Ourmedia is being given free storage space by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library backed by the entrepreneur Brewster Kahle."

  • Business Week Online, Dec. 29, 2004: Online Video: The Sequel. "Ourmedia, an online showcase for digital content, ... will provide free storage and blogging room for creative types such as New York indie musician Sam Bisbee, whose music video will be available for free."

  • Robin Good's Master New Media (blog), Nov. 17, 2004: Global Grassroots Content Clearinghouse: Ourmedia.

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