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October 26, 2005

Media, Communications and Technology in the Age of the Blogger

This evening marked the opening of the conference I'm attending in New York. Roger L. Simon of Pajamas Media gave the introductory remarks and I have some notes from his talk. I'll have to just toss them out there for now, then do some follow-up later:

Soundbite Quote:

"Rather and CBS were big jerks. That's not to say we aren't jerks. We are. But now we're jerks with a company."

Some things he revealed:

The new launch of Pajamas Media, with a new name, will be November 16th, in New York, at the Rainbow Room. One of the big speakers will be Judith Miller.

Pajamas has hired Princeton Research to do a lot of polling on how Americans feel about politics. Many of the results are surprising, but he wouldn't reveal any for now.

Pajamas plans to offer both live news feeds and a "best of the blogs" type of content. They plan to use a model of "editorial selection" of posts -- not editing actual content.

The place where Roger really thinks new media is headed is: "plastics."

Just kidding. Actually, video. They think video-casting or v-blogging is the wave of the future.

He said that between the mainstream media, bloggers, TV, podcasting, video, etc, that what would result is the emergence of true talent, as the cream rises to the top.

I'll have to sum up more of the crowd reaction later, but it was significant: lots of very detailed questions. All told, a great start to an interesting gathering.

Posted by Chester at October 26, 2005 11:45 PM

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Posted by: Nat Pierce at October 27, 2005 12:22 AM

Posted by: Chester at October 27, 2005 6:32 AM