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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Out of touch?

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.

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Business issues

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 […]

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Multi-tasking and trust metrics?

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 […]

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Capturing Ideas

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 […]

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The Pepsi Challenge

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 […]

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