This quote is from Elizabeth Osder who many will know from her days at the NYT. Sorry for the length, but I can not just post a link to http://www.inma.org, because the cover article to the March Issue of IDEA is behind a member wall. However, maybe it inspires participants to push product innovation – […]
Len Apcar and NYTimes on reporter bloggers… he says that the NYT brand is both a blessing and a curse, and so they are cautious with blogs. But there are other ways to see what happens with news organizations. As a point of contrast, check out this NYT reporter’s personal blog. This is on one […]
Not to get too meta here, but since Susan Mernit is at the center of conversation at MediaMorphosis, running the Morph blog, I thought it’d be interesting to hear her overall perspective, so I just quizzed her via IM: She says the most interesting thing she’s learned came from Howard Rheingold and DJ Spooky: “That […]
If you’re giving this a fast read, be aware that there are some excellent comments–in the I(surprise) comments links for these posts. Steve Portigual, Bill Gannon, Judy Faber, Anne Hunt, Michael Silberman, Rebecca McKinnon.Rob Enderle, Norbert Specker, and others have all added their (quite worthwhile) 2 cents. (As did the presumably fictional Charles Schulz)
There has been a lot of discussion about the future. Specifically, a lot of that discussion has been based on statistics and anecdotes – the past. If predicting the future were based on the past. Prognostication would become merely a matter of extrapolation. As Rob Enderle correctly observed, in periods of great change, you can’t […]
Jon Dube is part of the remote reading group, and picks up on some of the themes in what may be a swirling discussion to those not here. He writes: “In answer to a question of whether the new definition of news a conversation, nytimes.com’s Len Apcar hit the nail on the head when he […]
So when Dale Peskin mentioned that Dan Gillmor’s readers are smarter than him, Dan corrected that they know more. Laughter. Dale specifically requested that we blog this. Check.
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 […]
Two hours of audio from the first discussion session of MediaMorphosis “Disruption and Disorientation” – Presented by Fred Friendly Seminars is now available in four streaming flash files (Flash 5 required). http://www.mediacenter.org/content/3572.cfm
Partcipating in the morning brainstorming session at MediaMorphosis on reading on old and new media – newspapers, blogs, paper, laptops and their ubiquitous usage, I followed the call of nature and ended up with a paper based glossy hotel promo magazine and found an ad that is right in line with the discussion: Vision Art […]
As the room wrestles with blogger vs. traditional media, here’s something to think about: “… In the West, ever since ancient Greek philosophy, and especially since Immanuel Kant, the realm of philosophy has been divided into the true (objective truth), the good (moral truth), and the beautiful (aesthetic truth). In the East, Buddhism has a […]
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 […]
Jim Kennedy, Associated Press, points out that the group of experts gathering at the conference is amazed but what DJ Spooky is doing, shows that we are out of touch with cutting edge development. Amazement is a great first step towards embracing a new development.
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 […]