WeMedia — We Market
“Rich Skrenta”:http://www.mediacenter.org/content/5903.cfm talks about how they launched Topix with one IM to my buddy Mike Masnick at “TechDirt”:http://www.techdirt.com/, Mike blogged it, and from there it launched the company. Gave the company immediate credibility from subsequent Google searches once journalists got pitched, then wanted to do due diligence before deciding to write about the company.
“John Bell”:http://www.mediacenter.org/content/7058.cfm [...]
WeMedia — We Invest
Susan Mernit asks why the investing and acquisitions are going to tools and platforms and not content/media. “Rick Ducey”:http://www.mediacenter.org/content/6928.cfm says that the infrastructure changes the dynamics of how people participate, how content gets contributed. The platform drives the business model.
“Paul Gionocchio”:http://www.mediacenter.org/content/6931.cfm points out that the newspapers are investing in the new media plays, in part [...]
WeMedia — Al Gore
Al’s giving a fiery talk about how broken the marketplace of ideas is. I’ll leave the live-blogging to others (I’ll compile links shortly), but it’s an intriguing topic — especially considering the audience.
I wonder how many times Jon Stewart is going to be mentioned today: we’re up to four times in the first two sessions.
*Update:* [...]
Morph - live blogging WeMedia
John Burke is live blogging the sessions right next to me on “Morph”:http://mediacenter.blogs.com/morph/, one of the Media Center’s blogs. He’s much better at taking notes than I am. _Guess that’s why he’s at the AP and I’m not._
*Update:* “Andy Carvin”:http://www.andycarvin.com/ is also doing a great job on his blog taking notes on the sessions.
WeMedia — WeNews
“Richard Samborn”:http://www.mediacenter.org/content/6078.cfm, BBC: BBC is shifting from broadcaster to aggregator to facilitator. Notes that the strength of the news organization depends entirely on its relationship with the public.
Tom Curley, AP: We’re in a business-to-business model, we intend to stay in a b2b model. Notes that costs are driving access: HD cameras used to cost 400k, [...]
Chills - Citizen Generated Images
“Tom Curley”:http://www.mediacenter.org/content/6924.cfm, CEO of AP, just did a collection of citizen-generated media that has become iconic in our generation. The images included the photo of the Concorde that blew up, the jet before hitting tower two, the tube after the bombing, the American soldiers storming Elian Gonzalez’s hiding place, and video from vacationers during the [...]
WeMedia Stats run-down
Interesting, in the intro video at WeMedia, these are the stats they’ve quoted:
* Daily Kos weblog gets 700,000 daily visits. (It’s actually “750,000″:http://www.sitemeter.com/default.asp?action=stats&site=sm8dailykos, but that’s still a huge number.) I’m sending Markos an e-mail right now, he’ll get a kick out of being the representative weblog at an AP conference.
* Dawn & Drew podcast has [...]
WeMedia
I’m at the “WeMedia conference”:http://www.mediacenter.org/wemedia05/ today hosted at the Associated Press building. Al Gore is the keynote speaker, he’s on in a little over an hour. I’ll check in during the day…
