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Above: Attendees of The Media Center's Mobile Media event took a tour of the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California. There they saw and participated in demonstrations that included 3D face modeling and recognition, 3D Haptics simulations, automatic portrait rendering and a biology video-game.

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Steven Rosenbaum: People used to older models are the least likely to want to reinvent things

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Steven Rosenbaum, managing partner of Magnify Media, demonstrated how easy some new content creation can be and shared lessons he's learned from 20 years in TV news, his work with MTV and how to capitalize on a peer review filter model for content.

 

'Hopefully people will work together ... because they find it fun'

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Lau Eriksen, a journalist with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about what he hopes the pending convergence of his organization's radio and television operations will yield, and what satisfying the consumer means in Denmark.

 

'Without the Web, we have no future'

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Howard Owens, Director of New Media for the Ventura County Star, talks about opening up newspaper content to comments, advice on what to say to management when trying to expand your online operation and why moving beyond text delivery is so important to him.

 

'So many possibilities' so much Times

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Neil Chase is settling in to his new role as Deputy Editor for News at nytimes.com, and he's very excited. He talks about the newly announced offering, New York Times Select, bringing his experience from CBS MarketWatch to the Times, and on using the site to avoid incidents like the Jayson Blair fiasco.

 

The challenge for NewsCorp: Pulling it all together

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Kathryn Hamilton, Network Manager for NewsCorp's News Interactive, talks about evangalizing to the company's many newspaper holdings, lessons learned from her company's Tsunami coverage and on her company's attempts to break down some of the silos  that house their operations in different countries.

 

'The Web's become a much faster place to get the news you want'

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Larry Kramer, President of CBS Digital Media, talks about why cable news networks probably wouldn't launch cable news networks if they had it to do over again, the lessons he's learned from his days with The Washington Post and CBS MarketWatch, and how the changing attitude of advertisers will affect how news operations work in the future.

 

Immersing the masses in media

Sunday, May 01, 2005

Chris Kyriakakis, deputy director of the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) and the founder and director of the Immersive Audio Laboratory. talks about how the Internet will shift from simple browsing to a more realistic experience and how improved immersive technologies can enhance journalists' abilities to deliver a scene to their audience.

 

Media Center Tour: Integrated Media Systems Center at USC

Sunday, May 01, 2005

Attendees of The Media Center's Mobile Media event took a tour of the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California. There they saw and participated in demonstrations that included 3D face modeling and recognition, 3D Haptics simulations, automatic portrait rendering and a biology video-game.

 

Keys for successful video: Produce cheap, be immediate, and be flexible

Friday, April 29, 2005

Mitch Ratcliffe, co-founder of Persuadio and one of the first journalists to cover the Internet, shares lessons he's learned about producing video for the web and for mobile devices, and the pros and cons of the PSP as a media device.

 

Selling video to mobile devices, one minute at a time

Thursday, April 28, 2005

Lucy Hood, SVP of content and marketing for News Corp., talks about the challenges of getting video to work on nearly 150 different types of phones, and the success that Fox has had with its "mobisodes" that stream one-minute video clips to mobile devices, for a fee.

 

Focus on simple promotions when starting out with SMS

Thursday, April 28, 2005

Brian Hecht, CEO of Kikucall, talks about how media companies can take their first steps into the world of text messaging, and how hard it is to fit drink recipies into a mobile phone screen.

 

Handling emotions is key when letting go of the old world

Friday, March 04, 2005

NetForm President Karen Stephenson talks about the transition period media is going through to and the similarities to other industries. She also talks about the joy she has bringing her anthropology background to her work as a professor working with design graduate students at Harvard University.

 

BBC facilitates others to tell their own stories

Friday, March 04, 2005

Richard Sambrook, Director of the BBC World Service and Global News Division, talks about the BBC's multiple efforts to put storytelling and journalism tools into the hands of thousands of people around the world and the challenges that arise from enabling so many to tell their own stories.

 

'I for one welcome our Googlezon overlords'

Thursday, March 03, 2005

EPIC co-creator Matt Thompson talks about the feedback the piece has generated, how and why there is a forthcoming new version, and what intrigues him now.

 

Schechter: 'More watch dog, less lap dog'

Thursday, March 03, 2005

MediaChannel Executive Editor Danny Schechter talks about his film WMD: Weapons of Mass Distortion and some immediate steps mainstream media can take right now to help improve its situation.

 

Looking to technology to salvage public education

Thursday, March 03, 2005

Co-Chair of Digital Promise and former NBC News president Larry Grossman talks about the Digital Opportunity Information Trust act (DOIT), a bill that is designed to provide funding for research and development for digitizitations to enable the public to benefit from advanced technologies.

 

Focusing on the audience, not the bloggers

Thursday, March 03, 2005

During The Media Center's Whose News? Media, Technology and the Common Good seminar, blogger and self-professed "Online Diva" Halley Suitt told the group, "it's not what the bloggers are doing, it's what the audience is doing that we should be focusing on."

 

'We're starting to pay attention to each other'

Thursday, March 03, 2005

At The Media Center's seminar Whose News? Media, Technology and the Common Good, David Weinberger speaks about his curiosity about the conversational nature of blogs and how big media responds to the changing reader-author relationship.

 

What's the big deal about RSS?

Friday, February 18, 2005

Mark Fletcher, CEO and Founder of Bloglines, answers the question, "What's the big deal about RSS?"

 

Being able to search the future

Friday, February 18, 2005

Salim Ismail, Co-Founder & CEO of PubSub Concepts, Inc. talks about being able to search the future.

 

Finding new ways to make money with syndication

Friday, February 18, 2005

Stu Watson, Founder of Syndicate IQ talks gives a brief description of about his company does and why publishers should be interested.

 

Feeling your way around the future

Friday, February 18, 2005

Katherine von Jan, Trend Director of Faith Popcorn's BrainReserve talks about "brailing the culture."

 

Can the USA PATRIOT Act put your readers at risk?

Friday, February 18, 2005

Kevin Bankston, an Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, talks about how easy it is for the government to find out what Web users are viewing and why media companies need to be concerned.

 

Tim Barsky: Storyteller, master of the beatbox flute

Part 2 of 2

Friday, February 18, 2005

Tim Barsky is a traditional Ashkenazi storyteller and oral historian who has been getting increasing attention for his unique performance style, which blends hip-hop, street theatre, and Jewish folklore.

 

Tim Barsky: Storyteller, master of the beatbox flute

Part 1 of 2

Friday, February 18, 2005

Tim Barsky is a traditional Ashkenazi storyteller and oral historian who has been getting increasing attention for his unique performance style, which blends hip-hop, street theatre, and Jewish folklore.

 

Dan Gillmor speaks to The Media Center's Emerging Technology seminar

Part 2 of 2

Thursday, February 17, 2005

Dan Gillmor, author of "We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People," spoke during the opening night dinner of the Media Center's Emerging Technology, Business and Policy for Senior Executives seminar.

 

Dan Gillmor speaks to The Media Center's Emerging Technology, Business and Policy for Senior Executives seminar

Part 1 of 2

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Dan Gillmor, author of "We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People," spoke during the opening night dinner of the Media Center's Emerging Technology, Business and Policy for Senior Executives seminar.

 

Meet Generation 'C'

SIMM IV - Fall 04 - Executive Summary

Monday, November 01, 2004

This study and accompanying Video Briefing quantifies the seismic growth of simultaneous usage of media by a generation that creates, uses and distributes text, images, audio and video as part of their multiple media life experience.

 

Video Briefing from BIG Research

The Media Center and BIGresearch have joined forces on a Simultaneous Media Usage Survey that brings clarity and insight to real-time data on media usage.