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July 12, 2005

Reflections on a Dancing Pixel

NOTE: The following is an essay from independent filmmaker Maurice Jacobsen, who was a guest at The Media Center's Cross-Platform Media Teams event.

This story begins a long, long time ago. Well, actually, not that long ago, 1999 to be exact. But with the speed of Web development, it feels very much in the past.

David Neumann, president of Digital Entertainment Network (DEN), proudly gives a keynote address at the Streaming Media West Conference in San Jose. He speaks of his online network targeting Generation X and the great original programming his company is producing. His is the future and DEN is at the leading edge. He proudly talks of the sixty million dollars his company has raised.

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June 30, 2005

Steven Rosenbaum: People used to older models are the least likely to want to reinvent things

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Steven Rosenbaum, managing partner of Magnify Media told attendees of The Media Center's Cross-Platform media teams event "the people that are used to making content in an older model are the ones least likely to want to reinvent things on their watch, particularly if they have a mortgage or kids in college." He then demonstrated how easy some new content creation can be and shared lessons he's learned from 20 years in TV news, his work with MTV and how to capitalize on a peer review filter model for content.

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June 23, 2005

'Hopefully people will work together ... because they find it fun'

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VIDEO: Lau Eriksen, a journalist with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about what he hopes the pending convergence of his organization's radio and television operations will yield, and what satisfying the consumer means in Denmark.

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June 22, 2005

'Without the Web, we have no future'

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VIDEO: Howard Owens, Director of New Media for the Ventura County Star, talks about opening up newspaper content to comments, advice on what to say to management when trying to expand your online operation and why moving beyond text delivery is so important to him.

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'So many possibilities,' so much Times

VIDEO: Neil Chase is settling in to his new role as deputy editor for news at nytimes.com, and he's very excited. He talks about the newly announced offering, New York Times Select, about bringing his experience from CBS MarketWatch to the Times, and on using the site to avoid incidents like the Jayson Blair fiasco.

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The challenge for NewsCorp: Pulling it all together

VIDEO: Kathryn Hamilton, network manager for NewsCorp's News Interactive, talks about evangalizing to the company's many newspaper holdings, about lessons learned from her company's tsunami coverage, and on her company's attempts to break down some of the silos that house their operations in different countries.

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