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Eventful October - Part 2: ONA, UPI

If October started out being all about Internet Policy, with a little web analytics thrown in, it ended up firmly in the camp of online journalism and community media.

Two weeks ago I returned from the Online News Association (ONA) Annual Conference and Award Ceremony in Toronto. Pretty cool meeting, although not everyone was satisfied. That said, there were definite hightlights:

• CITMedia: Citizen Journalism Workshop - all day Wednesday, lots of inspiring panels and stories.
• Becoming a Community Evangelist panel with JD Lasica, Rob Curley, Jay Rosen, and Dan Gillmor — the thought leaders.
• The Legal Panel covered all aspects of legal issues, from DMCA takedowns and trademark issues to differences between the US and Canadian laws.
• Pretty good keynotes from Yahoo and IHT executives.

Edweek didn't win any awards, but we were a finalist for the second year running, this time for our beat coverage of the Supreme Court.

Then the following week I attended a conference with the pretentious name The Power to Change the World, a global leadership summit, media for the next 100 years. This meeting was hosted by United Press International (UPI), and organized by iFocos, the people who do We Media confernces. It was a really interesting meeting - certainly somewhat full of itself, but a fascinating opportunity to see contrasting views from thought leaders in new media business and journalism, alongside entrpreneurs and organizations pushing these technologies in bold new directions. Keynotes from Martin Luther King III and Dr. Hyun Jin Moon, Chairman of UPI's parent NewsWorld (and son of Sun Myung Moon). Dr. Moon praised journalistic objecctivity while complaining of his father's treatment by the media. Some other money quotes:

Traditional media projects authority, but it is also authoritarian. - Oh Yeon-ho, CEO, Oh My News (South Korea, paraphrased through an interpreter)

Micah Sifry, Co-founder and Editor, Personal Democracy Forum and TechPresident.com, pointed to the development of Open Source Politics, noting the importance of Voter-Generated Content such as the Hilary Clinton spoof of the 1984 Apple ad.

"Social media is a braintrust." - John Todor, Managing Partner, The Whetstone Edge

"The information we have, the less knowledge we gain." - Tom Rosenstiel, Director, Project for Excellence in Journalism

"People under 20 hate the word 'consumer.' - Dave Sifry, Chairman, Technorati

Dave also referred to the "people formerly known as the audience" but that quote was attributed to Jay Rosen (and he traces it back even further on his blog.) ¶ 1:01 PM | Permalink | |
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