Making Media Now (slides from Opening Remarks)

Here are my slides from the Opening Remarks I made at the Making Media Now: Filmmaking in Transition conference held yesterday at Boston University. A special thanks to Jennifer Kaplan, Bonnie Waltch, and all the people and sponsors who made this lively and engaging event possible.

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Beyond Broadcast 2007

On Saturday I attended the Beyond Broadcast 2007 conference held at MIT. The theme of the conference was “from participatory culture to participatory democracy” and well over 400 people attended. The live face-to-face discussion was paralleled in Berkman Island in Second Life and in Teen Grid too.

The conference web site set the context for the conference with this description, “For 50 years broadcast media have played a powerful role in shaping political culture and mediating citizen engagement in the democratic process. Now a participatory culture is putting the tools of media creation and critique in the hands of citizens themselves.” Here are some of my notes and impressions of the day.

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New Technology Presentation at Rio International Film Festival

On Thursday, September 28th I moderated a Rioseminars Panel at Festival do Rio 2006 (Rio International Film Festival) titled “New Technologies / Digital Market” with Irina Neves (COO, Cine Mobile), Fabio Lima (COO, Rain Network), and Martha Cavalheiro (Marketing Vice President, Latin America, 20th Century Fox). We each gave a brief presentation and then engaged with the audience in a very lively question and answer session. My presentation provided the “big picture” context for the discussion, while Fabio, Martha, and Irina discussed their cutting edge work in mobile media and digital distribution.

I promised to make my slides available, here they are: Rio2006-NewTech-v2.pdf (PDF, 10.2 MB)

The presentation is based in part on a work-in-progress article: Macro-Trends-v2.pdf (PDF, 164 KB)

Four key business books for understanding our changing times

There are four books that stand out as particularly relevant to understanding the challenges businesses face going into 2001. It’s time we put our aspirational predictions of the future aside and take a look at what’s really happening in the environment around us. The books are The Social Life of Information, Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation, The Innovator’s Dilemma, and The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual. Here are my comments on each.
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