morph posts: TMC Event - Emerging Technology '05 Archives

Emerging Technology video: Barsky, Gillmor and more

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.

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'You can't understate new capacities to produce.'

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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Can't talk ... must ... pro...cess information

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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Surveying the new media landscape

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.

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Emerging Technology Conference: New Media Sticking It to Old Media. But How's the Food?

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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Can the USA PATRIOT Act put your readers at risk?

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.