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.

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.

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.

Couple pieces we just saw, us in CNET and Seattle Times.

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.

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.

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.

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.