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The away teams are still hard at work. Here’s a summary, from our perspective, of what happened last month in Newport Beach. It boils down to this: Technology is driving or enabling profound changes in how individuals access, assess and respond to information. These changes, and emerging technologies that will propel them further, are visible now.

In a few moments we’ll be conducting a a webcast to review what we learned in Newport Beach, the SIMM simultaneous media consumption study we released to the public this morning, and where we’re going with all this.
Comments and additional discussion are always welcome.
The most important outcome of MediaMorphosis was the initiation of a cross-sector [...]

Last week, we launched Morph, a real-time conference blog for the Mediamorphosis conference sponsored by the American Press Institute.
Ezra Klein, Britta Gustafson, and Mary Hodder worked with me on covering the discussions; we also involved folks like JD Lasica and Jon Dube to comment remotely.
The blog launched Wednesday; but Thursday afternoon it had more than [...]

This morning first thing, this State of the Media report was posted on a few blogs. I started reading through the sections, which cover newspapers, online, local/cable/network TV, magazines, radio and ethnic/alternative media. It was put together by Columbia’s JSchool (and a few other folks) and funded by Pew. NPR was on [...]

Parts of Thursday morning’s session, “Disruption and disorientation”, and related links from the web.
“People don’t put obituary announcements on craigslist, they send them to the local newspaper. It’s not so much about the format of the newspaper, it’s about the community.”
GoogObits, a blog, takes obituaries from newspapers and “augments” them with google searches.
“While the media [...]

The Mediamorphosis conference flashblog started on February 26th, then a few more posts dribbled, until the conference was just beginning, and then it exploded. Lots of other bloggers and readers outside the conference started paying attention to the blog, which had posts from some invited bloggers as well as lots of audience members. [...]