UPDATE: Doug’s presentation can be found here Doug Poretz of Qorvis is my hero. OK maybe not, because I just met the man. But boy did he crystallize a lot of thoughts that have been running through my mind in the past month or so. I was one of the many people who were recently […]
UPDATED: 8:28 a.m. ET In a year or two, colleges will be educating freshmen who have always lived with the Internet. Mosaic, the first browser with in-line pictures, debuted in 1993, explained Rich Beckman of the University of Miami School of Communication. These digital natives or millennials, depending on who does the naming, are digitally […]
The goal is big. Make the shift from the left side of the brain to the right – the shift, Dale Peskin said, going on in society. An emergence of the creative world, a win for innovation and change. Think visually. To illustrate – the PC? So left. Evokes an image of old, from another […]
UPDATED: 8:45 PM ET Eight of us, half who have worked or still work in mainstream media, and the rest young New Media entrepreneurs, had a lively discussion about the future of so-called old or mainstream media. The consensus was that traditional mediums will not die off however they will become significantly smaller and will […]
I’m struck by how many non-profits are here at WeMedia – and not just not-profits technically-speaking, but inspiring starts ups and people of all sorts who want to encourage action and change (I was at BarCamp Miami and Future of Web Apps earlier this week and it was definitely more geeky of course, but businessy […]
The sky is falling! Newspapers aren’t going to survive. They’re declaring bankruptcy en masse. The Seattle Post Intelligencer is the latest considering going digital-only, I was told last night at We Media, along with the San Francisco Chronicle. Others already have given up some or all of their print editions. TV networks are bleeding, book […]