Rebecca MacKinnon is moderating. Brian Reich on Kos, promotes candidates by so far he is 0-14. So either he has a great impact, or he knows nothing about politics (which is what Brian says he thinks). But there are lots and lots of people reading Kos and getting one perspective. And he says "there are […]

Jessica Coen, Patrick Phillips, and Jay Rosen on Media Gawking. Jay is moderating. He’s editor of Pressthink, and Jessica edits Gawker, and Patrick edits I Want Media. Patrick left Hearst corporate public relations to start I Want Media. On his site, he tracks changing media, business models. He covers technology, media, and journalism. Patrick started […]

The next question I hear coming from moderator Jason Calcanis is how do you make citizen media a viable business. But first, a segue into  what would Andrew Heyward do if he had more choices? He says he’d love new media, but the trade off for working in Big Media is larger audience and impact. […]

Al Gore suggested that the good old days of media were when newspapers ruled. Craig Forman of Yahoo! notes this.Television in the early days, few networks, one-way information transmission, did not require much knowledge on the part of the viewer/consumer. Gore lauds the pre-television glory days of print, and there is some truth in that. […]

Merrill asks the panel how they will bring in citizen voice, citizen ideas. Sambrook says it a vast and critical move in big media. He notes that the BBC relied on citizen voices during the bombing. His answer, though, is much more than that. It’s about how to teach and learn how to change professional […]

Trust is a paramount concept underpinning this collaborative society. I forgot to look to see who said that, but I think Andrew. It’s a two-way street, publishers and producers of media asking readers to trust them, and readers asking these producers to trust them too. Society becomes participatory. I’m a educational researcher who studies learning, […]