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.