Cynthia Webb at washingtonpost.com reports “In the thick of a historic and obsessively watched Election Day, bloggers shook up the mainstream media by providing an early look at election exit polls, proving once and for all their influence not only in the coverage of politics but perhaps in the electoral process itself.” (registration required) Meantime, […]

The away teams are still hard at work. Here’s a summary, from our perspective, of what happened last month in Newport Beach. It boils down to this: Technology is driving or enabling profound changes in how individuals access, assess and respond to information. These changes, and emerging technologies that will propel them further, are visible […]

In a few moments we’ll be conducting a a webcast to review what we learned in Newport Beach, the SIMM simultaneous media consumption study we released to the public this morning, and where we’re going with all this. Comments and additional discussion are always welcome. The most important outcome of MediaMorphosis was the initiation of […]

Last week, we launched Morph, a real-time conference blog for the Mediamorphosis conference sponsored by the American Press Institute. Ezra Klein, Britta Gustafson, and Mary Hodder worked with me on covering the discussions; we also involved folks like JD Lasica and Jon Dube to comment remotely. The blog launched Wednesday; but Thursday afternoon it had […]

This morning first thing, this State of the Media report was posted on a few blogs. I started reading through the sections, which cover newspapers, online, local/cable/network TV, magazines, radio and ethnic/alternative media. It was put together by Columbia’s JSchool (and a few other folks) and funded by Pew. NPR was on it by around […]

Parts of Thursday morning’s session, “Disruption and disorientation”, and related links from the web. “People don’t put obituary announcements on craigslist, they send them to the local newspaper. It’s not so much about the format of the newspaper, it’s about the community.” GoogObits, a blog, takes obituaries from newspapers and “augments” them with google searches. […]

The Mediamorphosis conference flashblog started on February 26th, then a few more posts dribbled, until the conference was just beginning, and then it exploded. Lots of other bloggers and readers outside the conference started paying attention to the blog, which had posts from some invited bloggers as well as lots of audience members. At the […]

I truly valued the opportunity to commune with the impressive group at the retreat, but I offer a bit of constructive criticism for any next round. The advertised breakthrough thinking never materialized because the discussions were stuck at too high a level. The three propositions were, in fact, part of a single given, which we […]

Marta Buscaglia wrote, “The dialog is started. Now we have to move forward. … What should our next steps be?” Tim Porter wrote earlier: “Anyone want to start a we-news service?” Last year Rusty Foster (founder of Kuro5hin), Matt Haughey (founder of Metafilter and proprietor of the PVR blog) and I were talking about starting […]

This was posted as a comment, but it should be a post on its own. Posted by Bill Gannon (bgannon at yahoo-inc dot com) at March 12, 2004 01:10 PM. Random thoughts I’m just barely vain enough to share: Nomenclature: So API wants to be known – so I was told on a break yesterday […]