Some last Fusion Conference thoughts

// August 4th, 2004 //

  • Jan Schaffer: story is not about blogs. It’s about media participation. The creation and distribution of Scream mp3s. MoveOn campaign ads. Low budget high impact Documentaries. It’s story making versus story telling.

  • Schaffer: it’s about hyperlocal citizen media. This is often low-tech. You can’t shut out the non-wired audience. http://www.goskokie.com and others. Don’t forget low frequency radio (How would that tie into electronic media and social software applications on a block-by-block level?)

  • Schaffer: rightly points out that blogs are narcissistic, niche, and inefficient. The technology CAN be applied more usefully. There’s a touch of old-school imperiousness in how she assumes that media consumers still need direction in agenda-setting and civic journalism from traditional media. My real quibble is the reluctance to acknowldege the short attention spans and wilfull (and sometimes intelectually harmful) independence of young news consumers today.

  • Jeff Jarvis: most important invention in media was the remote control.

  • Jarvis: for the first time, a journalism student can come out of school thinking as an entrepreneur, and create their own media entities.

  • Neil Heinen: We the People Wisconsin isn’t wired. It isn’t web-based. It’s based on interpersonal relationships, and is “still out there, dragging the candidates to the citizens.”

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