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Hi folks,
Sorry I've been a bit delinquent from bridging the discussion over from the Third Thursdays event. We had a great discussion around the existing and historical issues around creating independent Asian American media (in addition to some good discussion simply defining it).
I wanted to use the tribe to generate some discussion around what the future brings, and how new media/internet trends are affecting traditional media.
For starters, I thought I'd throw out a link to a recent SFGate column by C.W. Nevius who had a chance to sit down recently with Dave Barry:
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi
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"It has to start with the kids," he said. "My son is 25. He's been around newspaper people all of his life. He doesn't get the paper. That's the first problem. The second problem is: We can no longer compel people to pay attention. We used to be able to say, there's this really important story in Poland. You should read this. Now people say, I just look up what I'm interested in on the Internet."
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For me, this quote totally nails it. The way information gets distributed these days is more of a "pull" than a "push". Additionally, we're no longer dependent upon a handful of sources for our information. Today, they come from our friends via email, or IM, text messages on our mobile phones, or via the blogs that we read. Technology has made word-of-mouth communications faster than ever, and a viable mechanism to get up-to-the-minute information.
How do you get your news?
Sorry I've been a bit delinquent from bridging the discussion over from the Third Thursdays event. We had a great discussion around the existing and historical issues around creating independent Asian American media (in addition to some good discussion simply defining it).
I wanted to use the tribe to generate some discussion around what the future brings, and how new media/internet trends are affecting traditional media.
For starters, I thought I'd throw out a link to a recent SFGate column by C.W. Nevius who had a chance to sit down recently with Dave Barry:
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi
<snip>
"It has to start with the kids," he said. "My son is 25. He's been around newspaper people all of his life. He doesn't get the paper. That's the first problem. The second problem is: We can no longer compel people to pay attention. We used to be able to say, there's this really important story in Poland. You should read this. Now people say, I just look up what I'm interested in on the Internet."
</snip>
For me, this quote totally nails it. The way information gets distributed these days is more of a "pull" than a "push". Additionally, we're no longer dependent upon a handful of sources for our information. Today, they come from our friends via email, or IM, text messages on our mobile phones, or via the blogs that we read. Technology has made word-of-mouth communications faster than ever, and a viable mechanism to get up-to-the-minute information.
How do you get your news?
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Re: Follow up thoughts to Third Thursdays
Wed, February 8, 2006 - 8:17 PMAs you'll find posted here ( www.sifry.com/alerts/arch.../000419.html ), the "blogosphere" is growing at an amazing rate, doubling every 5-6 months.
What that means is that self-publishing is getting easier. But what impact is that having?
Here's a second opinion around the question that we ended last month's panel with (incidentally, the author of the article, Lakshmi Chaudhry, is a former Third Thursdays panelist, herself):
Can Blogs Revolutionize Progressive Politics?
www.alternet.org/story/31955/
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Re: Follow up thoughts to Third Thursdays
Tue, February 21, 2006 - 11:17 PMIn addition to blogs, the emergence of personal digital media has been rather interesting.
Without getting too academic here, I think gone are the days where it was expensive to create something and get it out there.
As you can tell from this:
youtube.com/w/%22Read%22
this:
youtube.com/w/asian-spic...ls-gone-wrong
and this:
www.youtube.com/
getting images of yourself out in the world isn't an issue. Getting distribution, however, is still a challenge, though new digital distribution channels (like search engines, social networking sites, instant messaging, email) are being created left and right.
Or, another way to think about this is that our best channels for distribution (our friends) have always been there--it's only recently, however, that they've been equipped with effective tools to broadcast their messages.
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Re: Follow up thoughts to Third Thursdays
Thu, February 23, 2006 - 4:21 PMAnother post that I dug up that talks about the impact of new media, and the opportunities it presents:
Connectivity, Culture, Community and Commerce. why it's all happening on the web
smlxtralarge.com/archives/000172.php
Here's a snippet:
Its one example of many case histories out there that demonstrate growth can be achieved, but one must be prepared to embrace the world of business and marketing in a different way. We describe it as the 4C's - Connectivity, Commerce, Culture and Community. It is about aligning these that gives clues to the future opportunities vs. threats.
One comment is that bloggers do not only get their news from the printed page it can happen the other way around - and this post is a combination of blog sources, online sources and newspapers.
Briefly the 4C's can be described thus, Connectivity provides companies for the very first time the opportunity to generate two-way flows of information, feedback and engagement.
Connectivity, enables us - via the internet and the mobile phone - to identify who are prolific connectors and social networks that could be key distribution points to viral contagion and sharing word of mouth messages. But connectivity alone is not enough, there must be good content (culture) and a population of interest (community). If this can be combined with a genuine business enterprise (Commerce). One is looking at a powerful business and marketing model.
