Sarah Lacy on her new book

Sarah Lacy on her new book from JD Lasica on Vimeo.

One of the people I had the best time bonding with on our Innovation Israel trip to Tel Aviv in April was tech journalist Sarah Lacy. Sarah has a new book out: Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good, a narrative-driven look at the rise, fall and resurrection of Silicon Valley's startup culture, from Mark Andreessen to Mark Zuckerberg.

In this 11-minute video interview conducted on a windy beach in Tel Aviv, Sarah talks about startup CEOs and her phenomenal access to get some insidery info about the people driving the Web 2.0 revolution.

This is also the first time I've used the video sharing site Vimeo, which is aiming for producers creating higher-quality works. I liked the experience.

Watch video (in H.264) on Ourmedia
Watch video transcoded to Flash on Ourmedia
Watch video in Flash on Vimeo (they do a better job of transcoding; their embedded Flash player is above)

David Weinberger on his new book

Yesterday I spent a few minutes with David Weinberger -- an old friend, co-author of Cluetrain and author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined -- after his lively and deeply interesting keynote talk at the New Communications Forum.

I pulled him into the hallway for a 4-minute video interview with my Nokia N-93 cell phone (the lighting was very poor, but the sound's fine) to discuss his next book, due out in May, titled, Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. Looking forward to reading it. You can pre-order it on Amazon.

Meantime, here's the video in MPEG-4 (Ourmedia page | watch video | Internet Archive).

Eleanor Kruszewski: A 'Darknet' interview

Eleanor Kruszewski of Yahoo! does a citizen journalism report, interviewing me about my book "Darknet," June 22, 2005, in San Francisco.

Format: QuickTime; 130MB; 31:00; Ourmedia page | video; video quality: *** (out of 5)

Tags: Eleanor Kruszewski, darknet, copyright, book, Hollywood, citizen journalism