To riff on Howard Rheingold and Jay Harris’ point: This is the question news organizations need to ask first. Can the industry really expect ROI that’s 6x the average Fortune 500 company? Especially when everyone has the opportunity to become a global media entity on their own – and their doing it.

Jeff Greenfield: Why does TV matter to blog readers? Jake Tapper: I see wired readers as an opportunity–I wish we could broadcast my reports 1:20 and send them straight to phones..I find the paper boring. I read it every day, but I don’t think the newspaper business is adapting–but I think broadcast can-that’s why I […]

Ed Horowitz wants to know if he can earn the right to be the place people go to filter all our news, cause it’s a lot of work to go to all those sites. Ed, meet NewsGator. Or any of the other RSS feed aggregators. Cause it’s not about going to a million sites. It’s […]

There is an idea floating around, a “meme” if you will, that by creating his own news media and adapting everything to his tastes, Oliver destroys the concept of a public space. Replicated on a generational scale, it will lead to towering isolation. I must disagree. The concept of public space is finally being fulfilled […]

Right now on screen, we’re watching a series of images, interspersed with words, Lessig-poetry-slam-style. “Change.” We’re set up like the UN, with one person walking around in the middle. Talking about how to get people who are younger to pick up the paper. Oliver is responding to this saying that the paper has only so […]

Kos: One of the beauties of the blogs is that there is a two way flow of communication–I can go into the comments in a blog and send people to other relevant stories.

What do you think–Are you a different kind of news consumer if you get your news online?

Progress moves in fits and starts, it never totally fulfills the expectations of the trailblazers and rarely remains in the boundaries set by its detractors. Explaining why traditional print media is a “Good Thing” is fighting a battle that’s already been lost. Those who like print media will stay with it, the critical move now […]

Discussion points: Why newspapers matter(or not) Sandy Close: Perhaps because you speak only one or two languages, you are not going to have a sense of what your city is becoming, day after day, without the heft of print.” Kos: Technology has made us a much smaller world–I can get more information online–we’re in a […]

The opening video’s message: It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one that is most responsive to change. —Charles Darwin Conference organizer Dale Peskin remarks: Our job here is to be sort of the maestros of the change that is going on and figure it out.