Listening to Howard Finberg and others report about the conference’s discussion of us vs. them, blogs vs. big media, trustworthiness of big media vs. personal media, it strikes me that there is indeed a “trust gap” that exists for many, many thousands of people in the blogosphere when it comes to traditional media. But I […]

Terrific, thoughtful post by Len Witt on his own blog. Some excerpts: “So here I am at the MediaMorphosis conference, but got shut out in getting a comment made that I wanted to make. So what, I’ll just blog it here, which represents the power of who has control, the official moderator or the individual […]

During the “Disruption and Disorientation” session this morning, I wrote down as much as I could about what was said. It’s sort of a rough transcript, with my brief comments interspersed: http://jeweledplatypus.org/britta/disruption-discussion.txt. The audio from the session is also available online.

This quote is from Elizabeth Osder who many will know from her days at the NYT. Sorry for the length, but I can not just post a link to http://www.inma.org, because the cover article to the March Issue of IDEA is behind a member wall. However, maybe it inspires participants to push product innovation – […]

Len Apcar and NYTimes on reporter bloggers… he says that the NYT brand is both a blessing and a curse, and so they are cautious with blogs. But there are other ways to see what happens with news organizations. As a point of contrast, check out this NYT reporter’s personal blog. This is on one […]

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 […]

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)

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 […]

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 […]

So when Dale Peskin mentioned that Dan Gillmor’s readers are smarter than him, Dan corrected that they know more. Laughter. Dale specifically requested that we blog this. Check.