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Davos

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Davos
: I wish there had been more blogging of the blogging panel at Davos. The panelists can’t do it — they’re busy paneling — so they should have invited a few bloggers. As I said yesterday: Invite bloggers and they will blog. And if you want to know what blogging’s about, that’s another reason to invite bloggers!

Nonetheless, a few of the panelists have put up notes: Ito, Le Meur, Rosen, plus an official PDF summary.

: The best thing I saw in that official summary came from Dr. Hubert Burda, head of a major German publishing/TV/online company:

Traditional media companies are also watching the rise of blogging with an interested but anxious eye

5 responses to “Davos”

  1. MattS Avatar
    MattS

    The remote control and cable killed mass medium like a volcanic eruption; the Internet is the forest that grows in the ashes.
    Nice sentence.
    Who are the losers of such a transformation, politically speaking?

  2. MattS Avatar
    MattS

    For instance, John Kerry’s campaign closed his forum down at the bottom of this thread:
    http://forum.johnkerry.com//index.php?showtopic=525&st=105
    Is that a weakness of the broadcast campaign model?

  3. Jeff Jarvis Avatar
    Jeff Jarvis

    Matt… thanks but i meant “media” and just changed it…
    Fascinating question on the political implications. I don’t THINK this means the end of a two-party system. But if media fragments, does politics? I think it wants to but our founding fathers were wise enough to set up a system that makes that hard. Our system forces us to work together if we want to win…. No?

  4. old geezer Avatar
    old geezer

    With tradition mass media you get the story with the alleged facts. Established blog sites give you the much needed investigation and multi-perspective analysis of those printed facts.
    Print mass media’s only nemesis was some old geezer’s lone Letter to the Editor in the past. Not anymore. The old geezer got younger, grew in numbers, and electronically is now faster than print.
    The playing field is getting leveled. Thank God.
    Maybe, someday, a smart person in that one paper town, of which there are too many, will create a virtual newspaper. Ad revenues would be needed, but not as much as dead tree printing requires(paper, ink, big union salaries for printers and distribution). Is it viable someday? I hope so.

  5. Peter Avatar
    Peter

    I’m tired of reading blogs that promote the greatness of blogs, blogging, and bloggers. I’m already here — you’re preaching to the choir.