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 […]

The earlier session got me thinking about new media/old media. This WebIQ software is a new media thing. Everyone is posting ideas and brainstorms, decentralized, individual, spontaneous… They’re using this web software that seems not quite intuitive enough, not quite ideal new-media. Each idea is categorized and rated by everyone. I’m not sure where they’re […]

The room has been divided into three sections… Three teams are tasked with figuring out the issues and problems with the current state of media. Kind of a triple wiki session/brainstorm on fixing your biz by getting busy with those you’ve been placed next to (don’t think this conference is giving up control; they got […]