October 20, 2005
At the AAJA Aspen Institute conference on the future of media and communications
by Liza Sabater
My Aspens have turned on the future of communications and commerce here at The Aspen Institute.
I am here at The Aspen Institute>, invited by the wonder people of the Asian American Journalist Association's Executive Leadership Program.
I subbed for Susan Mernitt, one of my fairy blogmothers, on the Communications and Commerce panel. Along with Daniel Torras of Mobile ESPN, we talked about how online communities and consumer trends are changing the business model of communications and media.
I pulled a BlogHer and decided not to power-point it, although there was great connectivity and the projection setup was fantastic so I could rely on an assistant to pop-open the websites of some of the technologies and companies I have my eye on these days.
I'll come back with a fuller post on that.
I wasn't expecting to bumped into anybody I know, but once I saw him I had a "Duh!" moment. Of course Anil Dash is going to be at this conference. How could he not! Total shout out to Anil, his honey, the people of Six Apart. I had a blast just shooting the shit with him for hours last night.
It's sOoOo refreshing to be able to talk to someone about not just blogs but the blogeratti and they know exactly what you're talking about. It was great gossip, totally off-the-record and it should remain so. Neener, neener.
The people who are here are ultra smart. I've met journos from The New York Times, LA Times, AZ Central, Newsday, Star-Ledger; publications that I as a blogger not only read online on a daily basis; but that I rely on for blogging. I mean, one of the things that I stressed on this panel is that blogging and journalism are two separate animals. They can co-exist grandly; but people blog for the community, the networking and the kind of influence and/or activism conventional journalism does not necessarily allow. Does it mean blogs will do away with newspapers? No! But the end of what Jay Rosen has blogged as omniscient, and 'innocent' journalism is here. This is it. The all knowing objective ruse of journalism is gone, it's dead, it's over. It just means that newspapers will have to take a stand, make a commitment and, gasp! decide what their mission is going to be and stand for that commitment, that vision and that promise through their journalistic practices.
Gonna leave it there because I will be coming back to this full blast; particularly in light of the Plamegate and WHIGs scandals. And I also have a shuttle to catch.
Posted by Liza Sabater in Blogs, Commerce, Internet, Journalism, Media, Social Networks, Technology, Web
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