Meta Media Morphosis

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 […]

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Check the comments, folks

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)

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How to predict the future

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 […]

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Cyberjournalist Sez

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 […]

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Conference coverage:Another view

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 […]

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Audio from Fred Friendly session

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

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Old Media – New Media

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 […]

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You want the truth?

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 […]

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Andrew Davis: Sustaining innovation

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 […]

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