Interesting comments and POV from Poynter staffer(and esteemed online newspaper expert) Howard Finberg happening on Convergence Chaser, his Poynter blog. One brief excerpt: “Can’t we all just get along?” That’s the quote from Chris Hendricks, vice president for interactive media at McClatchy, as he listened to the We Media panel. He was responding to the […]

3:32 PM in a chandelier-lit ballroom. Laptops everywhere. Andrew Davis, President of the American Press Intstitute is helping us cross the chasm of the innovator’s dilemma by talking about product innovation and obsolence. Gas lamps and electric light, bound encyclopedia sets and CD-Roms. How does these truths about entering disruptive techologies apply to the media […]

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 […]

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 […]

There’s a fierce debate raging about blogs vs. media businesses and it seems like the wrong conversation. Bloggers can often afford not to make money, or to make a far lesser margin(remember that home office thing?) And yet, fron a consumer perspective, while readers highly value the credibility of news organizations, they also want instant […]

Good discussion beginning here–with slow slowness on the part of blogs.com which we are addressing. Keep posting! We’ll be discussing the blog comments and posts as we move toward the second half of this session.

Bohrman: Blogging is a potential cesspool of information. Sandy Close: It’s not just bloggers–how about the ethnic media? Howard Rheingold: While we’re debating, real journalists are out there–they might be bloggers or professional journalists. What matters is finding out what’s true. Greenfield: That’s a traditional media notion. Mernit comment: Being accurate is traditional? I think […]

Jeff Greenfield: Why does TV matter to blog readers? Jake Tapper: I see wired readers as an opportunity–I wish we could broadcast my reports 1:20 and send them straight to phones..I find the paper boring. I read it every day, but I don’t think the newspaper business is adapting–but I think broadcast can-that’s why I […]

Kos: One of the beauties of the blogs is that there is a two way flow of communication–I can go into the comments in a blog and send people to other relevant stories.

What do you think–Are you a different kind of news consumer if you get your news online?