Drilling Down
I arrived in Seattle late yesterday afternoon. My luggage arrived significantly later, after an unexplained detour through Philadelphia.
Seattle is a lovely city, at least from what I've seen. I look forward to exploring it more this weekend, after ssullivan arrives Thursday night.
The conference itself just started an hour ago, and so far, it's rather dull, as I expected it would be. The first speaker, who runs LATimes.com, was just terrible--he talked a mile-a-minute, and his presentation was all over the map. The most interesting element of his talk was just how papers are going to change--there's going to be a lot more user-generated content, and a lot more seamlessly integrated advertorial. My fear is that newspapers are going the same way of TV--splashier and shallower, rather than in-depth and hard-hitting. There could also easily be such a blurring of public relations and journalism that the latter could become entirely untrustworthy due to the former. And as PR tools in the new media sector become more sophisticated, the idea of the independent blogger voice could easily disappear entirely.
We'll see. In the meantime, I'm going to suffer through this presentation wholly unrelated to my job while trying not to freeze from the A/C blowing unabated on my back.
Seattle is a lovely city, at least from what I've seen. I look forward to exploring it more this weekend, after ssullivan arrives Thursday night.
The conference itself just started an hour ago, and so far, it's rather dull, as I expected it would be. The first speaker, who runs LATimes.com, was just terrible--he talked a mile-a-minute, and his presentation was all over the map. The most interesting element of his talk was just how papers are going to change--there's going to be a lot more user-generated content, and a lot more seamlessly integrated advertorial. My fear is that newspapers are going the same way of TV--splashier and shallower, rather than in-depth and hard-hitting. There could also easily be such a blurring of public relations and journalism that the latter could become entirely untrustworthy due to the former. And as PR tools in the new media sector become more sophisticated, the idea of the independent blogger voice could easily disappear entirely.
We'll see. In the meantime, I'm going to suffer through this presentation wholly unrelated to my job while trying not to freeze from the A/C blowing unabated on my back.