We're off and running on the bus tour. We changed the front page of the site so you can track exactly where the bus is at any given time. We got off to a later start that we had planned but we had to do some promotional filming and get everyone's stuff on the bus. We also had to clear...

Hi! I'm the newest enlistee to the O'Reilly Digital Media blog, Ryan Stewart. I work as a Rich Internet Application Evangelist at Adobe and I'm going to be going to be blogging from the road during our on AIR bus tour that's passing through the western part of the United States starting on the 9th of July. This space will...

One of my jobs as a book editor is to advocate for the reader, making sure the information is accessible independently of whatever inside knowledge I might already possess. So when Derrick sent out an announcement to O'Reilly team that the new Digital Media Newsletter was ready for viewing, rather than just have him send me a copy, I thought...

Arguably the biggest concert company in the US (if not the globe), Live Nation, recently announced that they've launched a new online service called Live Nation TV. This new initiative features a vast collection of performances from a large number of venues, including the more intimate House of Blues clubs (which Live Nation purchased last Fall). Hundreds of performance clips...

If you missed it, see 60 Minutes interview with Negroponte about the teams dreams and the origin of the laptop idea....

The German webzine "heise mobil" has an excellent 8 (web)page article on the XO (English translation provided), A good review of the hardware, the XO's unique dual-mode display, the innovative software (including Etoys!) and the cooperating developers and sponsors....

The California Democratic Party held its annual convention in San Diego April 27-29, and I was there blogging, along with hundreds of other traditional and web-based reporters. Here are some observations. touch. This shot is from a rally of Barack Obama supporters just before Obama went into the main hall to address the 2,000-plus attendees. Notice the hand wrapped around...

Jessica Dolcourt posted a great article on the One Laptop Per Child initiative in Nigeria on CNET news. We are finally seeing the beginning of the first deployments of the laptop. I think we're going to be impressed with what these young children do with this technology. Photos and Video of the 3-day event also available. Nice overview of the...

First off, a request: if you're so inclined, go straight to the comments and say whether you watch online technical interview videos, and if so, which....

Via Tim O'Reilly's blog I come across San Francisco Chronicle publisher Phil Bronstein, predicting layoffs and saying the news business "is broken, and no one knows how to fix it... And if any other paper says they do, they're lying." Meanwhile, according to a Zogby Poll I find in the Financial Times, "Newspaper editors are overwhelmingly optimistic about their businesses,...