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If TNS Media Intelligence is right, the local newspaper advertising revenues grew in 2003 by 13.4%, the national by 5.8%, the internet by 15.4%. The local part and the internet part are of particular interest here: As newspapers are in the connecting people business (and always have been, and much more so in a local [...]

The Mediamorphosis conference team just showed a “video briefing” indicating that simultaneous usage of media–watching TV, talking on the phone, and using a computer, for example–is on the rise. Joe Pilotta of BIGresearch has data from surveys (email and phone) of 14,000 users on their multi-tasking behaviors. Now Katherine van Jan is talking about the [...]

The earlier session got me thinking about new media/old media. This WebIQ software is a new media thing. Everyone is posting ideas and brainstorms, decentralized, individual, spontaneous… They’re using this web software that seems not quite intuitive enough, not quite ideal new-media. Each idea is categorized and rated by everyone. I’m not sure where they’re [...]

The room has been divided into three sections… Three teams are tasked with figuring out the issues and problems with the current state of media. Kind of a triple wiki session/brainstorm on fixing your biz by getting busy with those you’ve been placed next to (don’t think this conference is giving up control; they got [...]

Did anyone in the last panel mention that one of the challenges facing “big media” is the disintermediation of information and authority? First of all, experts are not restricted to major media sources. Not only can Kos become a political authority, but he can do it at a far lesser margin–and probably be content with [...]

Per Kos. Blogging is about communities of people who get to determine what they talk about, how, where. Open The Network, Don’t try to Control It. Reputation. Sandy Close: Gossip? Not everything on paper is a newspaper, and not everything on a blog is gossip? The discussion is flying. Howard Rheingold: blogs have capital, but [...]