We’re about to start this panel, located on a floor accessible only by two elevators, so people are coming in in batches of 8. The topic: “Who can you trust in the We Media landscape? Where’s the line between commerce and information? No more is it a question of parsing the biases of individual media […]
This panel, The Power to Change the World – so far I am engaged (at least more so than in the last two) because of Darya Shaikh of OneVoice Movement discussing how so many benefit from the Israeli/Palestinian conflict (choice quote: “if you’re not pissing people off, you’re not doing your job”) and the idea […]
“With the traditional media losing its monopoly on information, opinion and storytelling, all sectors of society now have the power through media and communications to make themselves heard. How can we use this new power to make the world a better place? Session Chair: Andrew Nachison, Co-Founder, iFOCOS” J. Sebastian Traeger, CEO, Razoo Jim Brady, […]
Who are the new players in the industries and will they take all the money out of it (before the existing corporations) are big points as this discussion wraps up. In countries where there is not literary tradition (print) it is oppty to create a whole new form of media consumption. In China the newspaper […]
Richard Sarnoff and William C. Weiss who laugh at being characterized as “the suits.” Digital reading goes on today, and in Japan, for example, the best-sellers are cellphone novels. There is no such thing as a print publisher today vs. digital publisher. Sarnoff: Takes issues with some storytelling comments from previous session. Book industry has […]
Audience member points out that most of the worlds’ population is illiterate. He spoke of the power of image and video as an image magnifier and that is way media is going (to video and image, from print.) What is audience’s involvement with media — world is more and more corporate and that filtered “down […]
Jeff on storytelling: “People want to play a part in their stories.” Books were seen in the past as interactive. With video and other digital images being more interactive, the book now seems passive. Roger Black: In web, “me media” you are stitching together your own story. Media may be the problem because it denies […]
Jeff Gomez author of Print is Dead and Roger Black and Andrew Nachison are conversing in this panel.
Andrew is talking now about access and connectivity. Ten billion people will be connected in the next ten years. access and connectivity knowing and discovery (how do we apply knowl that is at our fingertips?) transacting — power of people as in ebay, but also power of advertising is changing especially in the balance of […]
Proteus guy says we need a mobile 911 coop – biz opp and public need. In San Diego in the fires, they had spike for their 211 web site and callers (275 vols) who became news central because the MSM just ran the same video over and over. “Local pockets” of community needed local media […]