Heading to Aspen

Blogging will be very light the next two weeks.

I'm heading to the Aspen Institute on Tuesday for a summit on the Mobile Generation. (Haven't been to Aspen before, so I'm excited!) Then, taking in a few days with relatives at the Jersey shore.

On NPR's 'Talk of the Nation' today

I'm about to go on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation. Today's hourlong program is about war news: the conflict in the Middle East and the Iraq war, and I'll be coming in to discuss citizen journalism and user-created videos from the scenes of the carnage.

I'll post a link to the podcast when it goes up.

Later: OK, my segment's over now. It's been an interesting discussion, especially given that Talk of the Nation is what I consider the premier talk radio show anywhere.

I ran out of time so didn't get to say this: You have to wonder if the Vietnam war would have gone on for 12 years if the Internet had been around. There would have been a much more realistic view of what the battlefield feels like, and public opinion may well have hardened against the war had we seen the carnage being wreaked on that small nation.

Still later: The podcast is up: An Online View of War in the Middle East. (Click on the Listen button.) Pretty interesting discussion, actually.

New media making deals with old media

Today's San Jose Mercury News: New media making deals with `old' news providers.

Photos and video from BlogHer

Here are some final photos of BlogHer in a Flickr photo set. That's a bad photo of me with Arianna Huffington at top; Halley Suitt in a smaller image.

As for videos, here are three, with more coming in mid- to late August:

From top:

• Jory des Jardins, co-founder of BlogHer, talked about the conference as it was ending Saturday — including plans for next year's BlogHer in Chicago in July — in this 4-minute video interview. (Ourmedia page | watch video)

• Elisa Camahort, co-founder of BlogHer, talked about the conference as it was winding down Saturday evening in this 5-minute video interview. (Ourmedia page | watch video)

• Adrianna Montague-Gray, a PR professional for a nonprofit in New York, assessed BlogHer from an attendee's perspective in this 3-minute video interview. (Ourmedia page | watch video)

Cross-posted to the Real People Network

The future of the news media

Here's a smart -- and overlooked -- 13-minute podcast on the future of media, with Art Kleiner, produced by the Future Exploration Network. Among the subjects: media formats, participatory media, globalization and localization of media, real-time games about nonfiction events, and the need for more experimentation in the mediasphere.

Among the predictions I just don't see: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer or San Jose Merc may become newspapers about technology, while other newspapers will gravitate to other niche subjects.

Should community news sites pay editors?

Mark Glaser's latest in-depth piece at MediaShift looks at the public offer by Jason Calacanis at Netscape to pay heavy users of rival social bookmarking sites such as Digg and Reddit to work for him. Execs at Digg and Reddit aren't worried about the offer, though some of their top users are weighing the offer to pay them $1,000 per month. Meanwhile Netscape has had some rough spots converting its site from a typical portal to a community-generated news site.

BlogHer photos

Here are my photos of BlogHer so far. On Flickr, natch.

Final photos from AlwaysOn

Here are some final photos from AlwaysOn — and from a side trip to the nearby Baylands Preserve.

Birthday

Hey, it's my birthday today.

Photos of Innovation Summit

Here are some photos on Flickr from the AlwaysOn Innovation Summit at Stanford. That's Chad Hurley, CEO of YouTube.

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