Live from Newport Beach!

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 […]

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On the outside looking in

Hi, Mediamorphosis pholks, Thought I’d dive in here. A few of us who weren’t able to be there in person today were hoping to share in some aspects of the conference virtually. Today I’d be especially interested in hearing what’s happening with Roger Fidler and the news tablet, and Hypergene’s Amazoning the News presentation. So […]

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Huh?

Something sound fishy, inconsistent or completely wrong? Alert our on-site fact-checkers. Send by email to: huh@mediacenter.org You can also send your posts via a text message from your mobile phone to 703.585.8806, via AIM to screen name “chadrem” or simply click here

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Welcome to Morph

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 […]

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Going Behind the Orange Curtain

To the Lovely (yes, capital-L Lovely) Four Seasons in Newport Beach tomorrow. It’s 85 in SF/CA today and well, spring fever is all aflutter. Unless you’re trying to get five days worth of work done in two, before taking off for the conference. Then you’re just wishin’ for rain. However, while we may be swamped, […]

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More on BBC’s use of mobile video phones

Those interested in the BBC video camphone efforts Howard mentioned below might want to check out this piece I posted on CyberJournalist.net a few months ago, reprinted from Ariel, the staff magazine and daily news online service of the BBC. In it, Andrew Harvey looks at this pioneering technology, discusses how BBC teams in Bristol […]

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Counting down to the conference

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. […]

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Aha!

If you reach a moment of clarity or brilliance during the retreat, send your thoughts so we can collect and post them. Send by email to: aha@mediacenter.org You can also send your posts via a text message from your mobile phone to 703.585.8806, via AIM to screen name “chadrem” or simply click here

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Successful Conference Blogs

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 […]

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New tools: Emerging markets

I had lunch today with a Silicon Valley social network/search engine/newsreader aggregator/blogging tools CEO. He talked about the idea that his business will be next-generation web and publishing tools. “No one in the blogging world–except for the people at SocialText, knows anything about publishing systems like Vignette,” he told me (no, he wasn’t from SocialText). […]

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