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Thanks to Carl Watanabe for pointing out the piece Doc wrote for Linux Journal, just before he joined Rafat Ali, Dennis Haarsager, and Diane Mermigas on the Technology and Trends panel at IMA. Searls presented a list of ten trends that he thinks will have an impact on public media. I’ve lifted them from his [...]

John Proffitt has posted a great piece assessing last week’s Public Media Conference from the 50,000 foot level.
In my (current) view, IMA appears to be at an impasse. We seem to have reached a point where integrated media advocacy has given out, where recommendations and demonstrations fail to move our organizations to meaningful action.
Check it [...]

I came back from the Public Media Conference with all kinds of good ideas and lessons. Probably the biggest take-away was our lack of reach, overall, online. With a couple exceptions, public radio and television stations are barely a blip on the screen, compared to the reach of local newspapers, for instance. The early results [...]

I’m at IMA and while I had hoped to post more by now, chances are I won’t have much in the way of posts until tonight and tomorrow. BUT the PRPD blog is already posting summaries of a few sessions and there will be more to come. So far:

Jimmy Wales’ keynote

Technology and Trends: What’s Around [...]