Mediabistro's MediaCircus came to town, holding a two day event May 20th-May 21st at Skylight NYC {275 Hudson St) that addressed how web journalism / publishing will continue to evolve
As web sites become modular aggregations of feeds
As the web grows pervasive through wireless technologies
As information is geotagged
As knowledge production becomes over more open source / community generated
As the social web is harnessed for promotion, production and distribution
Finding how to create value within that web economy is a challenge for old media and for anyone who ever gave a thought to becoming a blogger/web journalist.
The speakers at the event demonstrated that where ever this is going, there is still room for talent, especially if that talent happens to be the ability to explain where we are now and extrapolate a bit ahead to where we are going both eloquently and succinctly.
We were providing the Wi-Fi for the event, but it became much more than that. I spent the last part of Day One and all of Day Two.
I particularly liked what Steven Johnson of Outside.in had to say about community generation of hyperlocal content.
I met Laura Trouby their founder after about seven years of e-mails -- I 've been subscribing. It's a great organization she's built. As well organized and presented conference as I have attended.
Convergence at last! Wi-Fi Salon's long time goal has been to put a Web 2.0 interface on public Wi-Fi and create Wi-Fi 2.0. This Wi-Fi is not about access, but aggregated and community generated local content available on any device within a neighborhood or business district Hot Zone or over the web on a local community portal. That all had to wait though until the devices came, and led by the iPhone, here they come! It also had to await the arrival of 'good enough' networks. 3G anyone? Or public Wi-Fi that works.
Wi-Fi is the internet localized, and so a perfect platform for community publishing, for highly local multimedia services and experiences. We very much look forward to our next event with Mediabistro.
As web sites become modular aggregations of feeds
As the web grows pervasive through wireless technologies
As information is geotagged
As knowledge production becomes over more open source / community generated
As the social web is harnessed for promotion, production and distribution
Finding how to create value within that web economy is a challenge for old media and for anyone who ever gave a thought to becoming a blogger/web journalist.
The speakers at the event demonstrated that where ever this is going, there is still room for talent, especially if that talent happens to be the ability to explain where we are now and extrapolate a bit ahead to where we are going both eloquently and succinctly.
We were providing the Wi-Fi for the event, but it became much more than that. I spent the last part of Day One and all of Day Two.
I particularly liked what Steven Johnson of Outside.in had to say about community generation of hyperlocal content.
I met Laura Trouby their founder after about seven years of e-mails -- I 've been subscribing. It's a great organization she's built. As well organized and presented conference as I have attended.
Convergence at last! Wi-Fi Salon's long time goal has been to put a Web 2.0 interface on public Wi-Fi and create Wi-Fi 2.0. This Wi-Fi is not about access, but aggregated and community generated local content available on any device within a neighborhood or business district Hot Zone or over the web on a local community portal. That all had to wait though until the devices came, and led by the iPhone, here they come! It also had to await the arrival of 'good enough' networks. 3G anyone? Or public Wi-Fi that works.
Wi-Fi is the internet localized, and so a perfect platform for community publishing, for highly local multimedia services and experiences. We very much look forward to our next event with Mediabistro.
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