Blog­ging will be very light the next two weeks.

I’m head­ing to the Aspen Insti­tute on Tues­day for a sum­mit on the Mobile Gen­er­a­tion. (Haven’t been to Aspen before, so I’m excited!) Then, tak­ing in a few days with rel­a­tives at the Jer­sey shore.

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I’m about to go on National Pub­lic Radio’s Talk of the Nation. Today’s hour­long pro­gram is about war news: the con­flict in the Mid­dle East and the Iraq war, and I’ll be com­ing in to dis­cuss cit­i­zen jour­nal­ism and user-created videos from the scenes of the carnage.

I’ll post a link to the pod­cast when it goes up.

Later: OK, my segment’s over now. It’s been an inter­est­ing dis­cus­sion, espe­cially given that Talk of the Nation is what I con­sider the pre­mier talk radio show anywhere.

I ran out of time so didn’t get to say this: You have to won­der if the Viet­nam war would have gone on for 12 years if the Inter­net had been around. There would have been a much more real­is­tic view of what the bat­tle­field feels like, and pub­lic opin­ion may well have hard­ened against the war had we seen the car­nage being wreaked on that small nation.

Still later: The pod­cast is up: An Online View of War in the Mid­dle East. (Click on the Lis­ten but­ton.) Pretty inter­est­ing dis­cus­sion, actually.

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Today’s San Jose Mer­cury News: New media mak­ing deals with ‘old’ news providers.

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Here are some final pho­tos of BlogHer in a Flickr photo set. That’s a bad photo of me with Ari­anna Huff­in­g­ton at top; Hal­ley Suitt in a smaller image.

As for videos, here are three, with more com­ing in mid– to late August:

From top:

• Jory des Jardins,  co-founder of  BlogHer, talked about the con­fer­ence as it was end­ing Sat­ur­day — includ­ing plans for next year’s BlogHer in Chicago in July —  in this 4-minute video inter­view.    (Our­me­dia page | watch video)

•  Elisa Cama­hort,  co-founder of  BlogHer, talked about the con­fer­ence as it was wind­ing down Sat­ur­day evening  in this 5-minute video inter­view.    (Our­me­dia page | watch video)

•  Adri­anna Montague-Gray, a PR pro­fes­sional for a non­profit in New York, assessed BlogHer from an attendee’s per­spec­tive in this 3-minute video inter­view.    (Our­me­dia page | watch video)

Cross-posted to the Real Peo­ple Network

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Here’s a smart — and over­looked — 13-minute pod­cast on the future of media, with Art Kleiner, pro­duced by the Future Explo­ration Net­work. Among the sub­jects: media for­mats, par­tic­i­pa­tory media, glob­al­iza­tion and local­iza­tion of media, real-time games about non­fic­tion events, and the need for more exper­i­men­ta­tion in the mediasphere.

Among the pre­dic­tions I just don’t see: The Seat­tle Post-Intelligencer or San Jose Merc may become news­pa­pers about tech­nol­ogy, while other news­pa­pers will grav­i­tate to other niche subjects.

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NY Times: Why is Jonathan I. Schwartz, head of Sun Microsys­tems, the only For­tune 500 CEO with a blog?

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Mark Glaser’s lat­est in-depth piece at Medi­aShift looks at the pub­lic offer by Jason Cala­ca­nis at Netscape to pay heavy users of rival social book­mark­ing sites such as Digg and Red­dit to work for him. Execs at Digg and Red­dit aren’t wor­ried about the offer, though some of their top users are weigh­ing the offer to pay them $1,000 per month. Mean­while Netscape has had some rough spots con­vert­ing its site from a typ­i­cal por­tal to a community-generated news site.

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Here are my pho­tos of BlogHer so far. On Flickr, natch.

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Here are some final pho­tos from AlwaysOn — and from a side trip to the nearby Bay­lands Pre­serve.

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Hey, it’s my birth­day today.

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