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Cynthia Webb at washingtonpost.com reports “In the thick of a historic and obsessively watched Election Day, bloggers shook up the mainstream media by providing an early look at election exit polls, proving once and for all their influence not only in the coverage of politics but perhaps in the electoral process itself.” (registration required)
Meantime, Media [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

I truly valued the opportunity to commune with the impressive group at the retreat, but I offer a bit of constructive criticism for any next round. The advertised breakthrough thinking never materialized because the discussions were stuck at too high a level. The three propositions were, in fact, part of a single given, which we [...]

Marta Buscaglia wrote, “The dialog is started. Now we have to move forward. … What should our next steps be?”
Tim Porter wrote earlier: “Anyone want to start a we-news service?”
Last year Rusty Foster (founder of Kuro5hin), Matt Haughey (founder of Metafilter and proprietor of the PVR blog) and I were talking about starting a participatory [...]

This was posted as a comment, but it should be a post on its own.
Posted by Bill Gannon (bgannon at yahoo-inc dot com) at March 12, 2004 01:10 PM.

Random thoughts I’m just barely vain enough to share:
Nomenclature: So API wants to be known - so I was told on a break yesterday as “The Media [...]

Peskin is kind of wrapping things up:
“We’ve got technology here, we’ve got media, and within media we’ve got a lot of variety. Not competing, but looking at things in very different ways.”
“Bringing people together…tap into the collective intellect…I think we’re getting somewhere.”
“We need to carry this conversation much further…continue pushing the dialog.”
“We’re here to help [...]

Several people have wished Jeff Jarvis was here.
In his usual way, he’s captured some of the issues of the conference via a smart read:
An excerpt from his post—and the entirety is well worth reading:
“As an old friend and former colleague of mine said often, journalism is a trade, a craft — not an art [...]

The live sessions are winding down here.
Look for some summaries of the conference–high points, key points, challenges and recaps to go up in the next couple days.
If YOU have thoughts to share, please post them here–your insights and comments will be valued.
Give yourself the last word, huh?

DJ Spooky says…
L O O P S O F P E R C E P T I O N
sampling, memory, and the semantic web
by Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky
“free content fuels innovation”
- Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas
I get asked what I think about sampling a lot, and I’ve always wanted [...]

I fundamentally agree with Leah that we are having a ten year old conversation. However, it isn’t as though we haven’t been doing anything in those last ten years. Many, if not all of us, have been moving forward. That’s what’s missing at this conference. We all know the issues, let’s [...]