Two years ago I wrote about attending an interesting new trans-ocean conversation about media trends called the Future of Media Summit. Held along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, it featured Craig Newmark of craiglist, Chris Anderson talking about his new book The Long Tail, and a number of speakers in Sydney hooked up by an iffy videoconferencing connection.
A couple of months ago in San Francisco I connected with Ross Dawson, founder of the summit, and talked about some of the recent developments in citizen media. He kindly invited me to be part of the discussion, so on Monday night I’ll be driving down to Mountain View to take part in the third annual event.
Videoconferencing connections and broadband speeds have gotten a bit better since then, so I really like the way this is set up, with simultaneous discussions in Silicon Valley and Sydney, and then interaction between the two groups via video hookup. Details:
Speakers include Robert Scoble, Tom Abate, former San Francisco Chronicle editor Phil Bronstein (who is long past being referred to as Sharon Stone’s ex-boyfriend) — and that’s just on my panel — as well as Loic Le Meur, Mark Pesce, Chris Tolles, Jane Schulze and many others.
Venue: Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA (Stateside)
Panel: Media Leaders Discussion
Future of Journalism
When: Monday, 7:10 PST
Leaders in creating the future of journalism lead participant discussions on where journalism is going.
JD Lasica, Founder, Ourmedia
Robert Scoble, Managing Director, Fast Company TV
Phil Bronstein, Editor-at-large, Hearst Corporation
Tom Abate, Blogger, MiniMediaGuy.org
Registration & cost: $149 in the US.
The summit blog is here. Here’s the Future of Media Report 2008 page, which accompanies the conference, and the report as a free PDF download.
This looks to be one of the best-packaged media conferences of the year.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
Looks cool J.D.
If it didn’t cost money – I’d be there ;)
Have fun and make waves.