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On 7/19 I’ll moderate a discussion on “The Influence of Audience” for BLT LA, at the Luxe Hotel in LA (Sunset @ 405). Social media has obviously increased discussion of the effect of audiences on the creation of media. But in truth (whether through market testing in TV, multiple mix releases in music, or test screenings of multiple endings for features) the community has always had a role in the birth, growth, and evolution of popular media.
It’s worth taking a look at cases where fans and haters have influenced the direction of major projects, and valuable to discuss how communities can be engaged to improve projects.
Posted: July 14th, 2008 under » Editorial, » Events, » Media.
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For the nice review of ARC’s Keen on Media interview with Ken Hertz.
Posted: December 29th, 2007 under » Events.
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Posted by: Seth Shapiro
In San Francisco, highight of the conference so far has been an intriguing series of UI/UX paradigms by designers including Schematic, Method, Spin the Bottle, Eat.TV, Voom and OpenTV. Appropriately, the designs grappled with the pressing need to move from searching a linear guide to presenting a visual search methodology which keys from one visual selection to another visual selection. Dale also described his concept of the “New Primetime”: those pieces of content which are recent (including recently grabbed via DVR, from VOD, etc.) rather than the old school notion of Primetime as “airing on a network this minute”. Good discussion.
Posted: March 13th, 2007 under » Events.
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Posted by: Seth Shapiro
TED will apparently offer events from this year’s show (today through Saturday in Monterey) on the web for the first time. As of now there is nothing from today, but several TED speeches from other venues (rather than from the annual conference) are available here. Another group of clips is available from Google video here. Bet most of the scientific presentations benefit significantly from the energy of the room ? as a YouTube clips they’re not as powerful. I experienced the same thing at the Milken Conference last year. My fave of the current clips is the more plebian Tony Robbins presentation, with cameo/punchline by Al Gore.
Posted: March 8th, 2007 under » Events.
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Posted by: Seth Shapiro
Couple pieces we just saw, us in CNET and Seattle Times.
Posted: February 26th, 2007 under » Editorial, » Events.
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Posted by: Seth Shapiro
As mentioned on the home page, I’m moderating the Venture Capital Roundtable at Tracy Swedlow’s TV of Tomorrow show on March 14 in San Francisco. If you’re a VC, I-Banker or general finance person with experience in the media space, and interested in joining us, please ping me at seth@newamsmedia.com.
Posted: February 25th, 2007 under » Events.
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Posted by: Seth Shapiro
New Windows and Intel Mac versions are out. As discussed here this is the Broadband TV co. to watch at the moment, from Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who brought us Skype and Kazaa. Installing now, more later. Thanks Daniel and Grayson.
Posted: February 24th, 2007 under » Events.
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Posted by: Seth Shapiro
It may just be me but I thought the Broadband TV launch that was to change everything was going to happen at Ned Sherman’s show months ago. I know a lot of peeople have the beta… but when does the levee break? Hard to judge it without real traffic, though for now they’re the ones to watch, as they and thePlatform are the best user experiences in the space.
Posted: February 14th, 2007 under » Events, » Media.
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Haven’t had time to do a post re Media Summit NY yet – too many meetings- but it was an excellent few days. Good turnout of actual decision-makers, and unlike the usual round of say-nothing press release reading keynoters, uber A-Level keynotes from Barry Diller and Rupert Murdoch were interesting and entertaining. Attendees were a cut above as well. If you pick one digital event next year I’d make it this one.
Most interesting among Murdoch’s comments were his take on the decline of the newspaper as a familiy institution, one shared around the breakfast table (Page 3 girls and such I guess). Comments about succession? “I plan to live forever.” Most refereshing: his obvious relish announcing that Fox had closed with Sasha Baron Cohen on Borat II. I think KRM said he’d seen it three times. As… well, Murdochian as he can be, he’s a tough guy not to like. There’s a great quote in the William Shawcross book, I think, to that effect ? I’ll dig it out when I get home.
Posted: February 12th, 2007 under » Events.
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If you’ll be at the show ping me, we get in tomorrow night. Both Murdoch and Diller keynoting – way to go Victor! Looks like a great couple days…
Posted: February 5th, 2007 under » Events.
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