Discussion points: Why newspapers matter(or not) Sandy Close: Perhaps because you speak only one or two languages, you are not going to have a sense of what your city is becoming, day after day, without the heft of print.” Kos: Technology has made us a much smaller world–I can get more information online–we’re in a […]
The opening video’s message: It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one that is most responsive to change. —Charles Darwin Conference organizer Dale Peskin remarks: Our job here is to be sort of the maestros of the change that is going on and figure it out.
Overheard: “We should pass some UN resolutions while we’re here–the room is set up for it.”
In the bar, (too) late last night: DJ Spooky and Howard Rheingold talking about: camera phones, persistent online identity and presence, how teens around the world use short messaging services(SMS),and camera phones to communicate, sampling music as an art form and a political commentary, the Internet as a place for masks and personas. Art Basel […]
5:30 PM, Four Seasons Hotel: The ballroom of the Mediamorphosis conference, with multiscreen projection, a bank of computers in the back, and lots of folks chatting as they milled around. Attendees took a break from chatting one another up to check out Roger Fidler’s E-Ink prototype, BBCers Justen Dyche and Clive Ferguson’s mobbloging/video phone tools […]
Dan Gillmor’s just posted the first chapter of his new book “Making the News” on his blog site, for reflection and comment. Great timing for the start of the Mediamorphosis conference. Opening paragraphs: “We freeze some moments in time. Every culture has its frozen moments — events so important, and somehow so personal, that they […]
Is it a guaranteed deal-killer to say the wireless is working like a charm? Dan Gillmor and I are seated opposite one another at a little gilt table in the meeting room hallway at Mediamorphosis, clicking into the wireless network while we wait for our rooms to be readied. Dan has a new book he’s […]
Welcome to Morph, the Mediamorphosis conference blog. At this site, you will find detailed reports on all the conference activity including in-depth session coverage and reports on the social scene. Digital cameras and moblogging phones will be on the loose, so watch out! You can find detailed conference information by following the Mediamorphosis links to […]
Count down is starting for the Mediamorphosis conference next week. I’ll be there, leading the blogging charge, on the soon to be launched conference blog, which is getting its QA checks right now. For the past six weeks, web business and marketing newsletters have carried ads like this one: LAST CHANCE: The Media Center’s MediaMorphosis. […]
One of the things I’m thinking about is what makes a successful conference blog. There have been some clearly unsuccessful conference blogs in the past six months–but also some terrifically successful ones. Some of the qualities of a successful conference blog experience IMHO would include the following: –Real time coverage of the sessions, done in […]