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Invitation to talk from Ros Atkins of BBC’s World Have Your Say show.

Game Changer Demand Media’s Byron Reese describes the different thinking about content and the process of creating content.

The biggest surprise from yesterday’s unveiling of Apple’s iPad was that print publishers and journos weren’t terribly excited. “Waiting to be surprised. That hasn’t happened yet,” said Jim Roberts, the only New York Times wonk who didn’t confuse Steve Jobs with Moses. Valleywag has a good take on Print Media’s Big Tablet Letdown.
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New technology spawns new ways to tell stories. That’s the exciting part of Apple’s new tablet, an old idea whose time has apparently come.
Now comes the hard part: creating the content and designing the experience for the next wave of consumer devices that deliver our stories. We’re about to discover whether incumbent publishers and [...]

We couldn’t get to Hyderabad for this year’s group hug of the world’s newspaper publishers, but it sounds like the old boys are getting feisty in their dotage. Forced once to postpone because of bad economics and waning interest, the reconvened World Newspaper Congress, organized by the merged World Association of Newspapers and IFRA, launched [...]

Fifty-six million stories. Where’s the one about transparent government?

Dear Mr. Murdoch:
We’re so fortunate that we can entrust you with the future of the news business in the U.S. Such a shrewd business leader, too. Can you help a confused citizen understand your plan to save the news?

1. You’re going to charge people to read a story online that they won’t read, and [...]

This is a true testimony to the magic of a system that allows for open communication and collaborative problem solving around public concerns. You can really see how media, industry, government and private citizens can work together to improve their communities:

Dear Arianna,
About 2000 years ago the philosopher Seneca said that “the best ideas are common property,” which is an old thought rediscovered as the fresh ethos of the Internet.
To be fair, the current state of being on the Web allows me to bring to the same sentence a Roman stoic with the Greek [...]

I don’t recall where I was when Buddy Holly died. But I’ll recall where I was when Michael Jackson died. I was on Twitter.
– One Twitterer by the name of toomarvelous
I will remember where I was when I heard the news about Michael Jackson because it came for me in an unexpected place in [...]

A new revenue stream for SeeclickFix and its media partners is emerging:
SeeClickFix is currently hosting the SeeClickFix widget in sites like Boston.com and Philly.com and we are looking for other partners to host our free widget.
The tool provides much of the SeeClickFix functionality including the ability to view and report non-emergency issues. You can grab [...]

We new that tweeting was hot when we saw the usage in at the conference in Miami, but did not see the relevance to SeeClickFix at the time.  Fred Wilson from AVC.com has shown us the light:
On May 5th Fred Wilson Posted an article on his blog avc.com which suggested that it would be great [...]

Earlier this year, our annual We Media poll with Zogby Interactive showed deep dissatisfaction with newspapers and the leadership of news media. Now, two additional reports show how deep the dissatisfaction runs.
On a one to 100 scale, newspapers scored a 63 in the American Customer Satisfaction Index quarterly survey. That put them behind the airlines [...]

From our friends at NakedMedia, tune in May 19 for a webcast on how marketers and media producers are measuring their audiences.
What: The Battle Over Media Measurement
With: Todd Juenger from TiVo and Jon Gibs from Nielsen Online
Date: May 19
Time: 12pm ET
Details here. Register and post questions here.

History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme, observed Samuel Clemens. I was reminded of Clemens’ vision and failures amid this week’s hoopla over the new Kindle as well a Congressional hearing held today on the crisis in newspapers.
Clemens was a visionary who foresaw the age of invention. He wrote a glorious fable [...]