I know you are wondering about the next Future Salon, after all the third Friday of the month is just around the corner. Well, John Robb who writes the excellent Global Guerrillas blog and had his article Security: Power to the People in Fast Company will be on the West Coast on Friday the 31st of March and we will have him speak at the Future Salon that night. (More details to come soon.)
But don't despair, this Sunday there is going to be a really interesting Cybersalon in Berkeley, which I termed: Elitism and High Quality Media.
Here is what Sylvia Paull wrote:
Bloggers and podcasters are suspicious of “elitist” big media and
view the “democratizing” force of digital technology positively. In
contrast, many traditional journalists regard most blogs, wikis and
podcasts as amateurish and narcissistic. We wonder if expertise is,
by definition, elitist. And we ask if expertise and elitism might
indeed be necessary features of a high-quality media.
A Cybersalon panel of experts – including NY Times technology
reporter and author John Markoff, BlogHer cofounders and bloggers
Jory des Jardins and Lisa Stone, and blogger/podcaster/digital
reporter Steve Gillmor -- takes a critical look at the concepts of
expertise and elitism in the dynamic Web 2.0 world.
The theme is double interesting if you look at this weeks news about the sale of Knight Ridder and the apparent lack of interest of the buyer in The Mercury News, too big. Wow, elitism is tough to hold up in the unemployment line.
BERKELEY CYBERSALON
5-7 p.m., Sunday, March 19, 2006
Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St., Berkeley
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