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We've finally gotten our act together with regard to video and are in the process of launching a video channel on The Media Center site. http://mediacenter.org/mc/video/ (Flash player 7 required)

New video includes Dan Gillmor's entire conversation at the Emerging Technology seminar and the very entertaining Tim Barsky, a traditional Ashkenazi storyteller and oral historian who has been getting increasing attention for his unique performance style, which blends hip-hop, street theatre, and Jewish folklore.

(The following are upgraded and/or extended versions of previously published files)

Mark Fletcher, CEO and Founder of Bloglines, answers the question, "What's the big deal about RSS?"

Salim Ismail, Co-Founder & CEO of PubSub Concepts, Inc. talks about being able to search the future.

Stu Watson, Founder of Syndicate IQ talks gives a brief description of about his company does and why publishers should be interested.

Katherine von Jan, Trend Director of Faith Popcorn's BrainReserve talks about "brailing the culture."

Kevin Bankston, an Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, talks about how easy it is for the government to find out what Web users are viewing and why media companies need to be concerned.

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Ross Mayfield details the points brought up during Chris Anderson's presentation on The Long Tail

"In a world of abundance, you can't understate new capacities to produce.  I think Chris' talk must be fascinating for larger companies with under leveraged assets.  But if they focus only on the low hanging fruit of monetizing archives, you end up with an unblogged WSJ (its kind of like producing RSS feeds as your sole investment into Social Media, which doesn't necessarily open conversations or engage the energies of your constituents), and they will not take the key step of sharing control with the former audience."

http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2005/02/the_long_tale.html

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From Steve Gillmor "I’m at the Media Center’s Emerging Technology, Business and Policy for Senior Executives conference, assembled and moderated by Susan Mernit. Way too much potent stuff to sneak in a blog post. Back later."

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gillmor/index.php?p=48

Steve, I know where you're coming from ;-)

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JD Lasica took full advantage of the collective brainpower assembled at our Emerging Technology seminar. From his excellent report on the event:

"I raised the question: How do you turn newspapers from a publication into a conversation? One way is to turn you [sic] reporters into bloggers. But what else can online newspapers do to go beyond one-dimensional Reader Forums to create dynamic social spaces?

"Three speakers gave excellent responses.

"Ross Mayfield: Give users a chance to built upon your product. Give people the freedom to remix your content -- to take it in new directions -- by tagging your material with a Creative Commons license.

"Bob Wyman: One roadblock is that you can't find the conversation about your story on the media site itself. What you need is a button or listing of comments about this story, so that "you suck the entire Internet into your local paper as the environment in which to talk about the paper.
They can be blog entries, videocasts, audiocasts, so that the paper once again becomes the focal point of your community."

"Jim Kennedy: Let the readers continue the discussion begun in the story by conversing with the sources."

Read the whole report

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We aim to please at The Media Center (when we're not cajoling, inciting or otherwise challenging participants in our events). Apparently sfist.com editor Jackson West was pleased at our attempts to do all of the above.

"[Seminar moderator] Susan [Mernit] then asked, 'How can Yahoo help bloggers and smaller providers make money?' (Now do you see why we love Susan?) The point is, MyYahoo is selling all this new functionality to users, and their user base to advertisers, but they're getting all the content for free from small publishers. The response was less than heartening -- Scott Gatz suggested it was all about making your content easier to find and said he had anecdotal stories of sites growing after being pointed out to Yahoo users by Yahoo's editors. It didn't sound like Yahoo had really considered that they would ever have to pay for feeds, or that people might see Yahoo targetting ads based on a user's blog choices as taking advantage. When Susan pressed them, asking 'Can you help them monetize their feeds," Scott replied 'Not right now.'"

Read Jackson's comprehensive recap of our Wednesday night dinner at Yahoo! headquarters.

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Kevin Bankston, an Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, talks about how easy it is for the government to find out what Web users are viewing and why media companies need to be concerned.

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Katherine von Jan, Trend Director of Faith Popcorn's BrainReserve talks about "brailing the culture."

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Brian Buchanan passes along this useful article:

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Stu Watson, Founder of Syndicate IQ talks gives a brief description of about his company does and why publishers should be interested.

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Salim Ismail, Co-Founder & CEO of PubSub Concepts, Inc. talks about being able to search the future.

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Mark Fletcher, CEO and Founder of Bloglines, answers the question, "What's the big deal about RSS?"

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Ellen Siminoff, President & CEO, Efficient Frontier, talks about what she would advise media companies to do to best position themselves with the advent of new search opportunities. (Flash 6 required)

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