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I’m still digesting a lot of the sessions at last week’s Web 2.0 Summit. If you weren’t there, I highly recommend checking out some of the sessions which are archived here either for streaming for to download to your iPod.

The panel I was most eager to hear going in was “The Media Business: New Approaches.” The panel was moderated by Ken Auletta of the New Yorker and included Evan Williams of Twitter and Joel Hyatt of Current TV.

The panel didn’t disappoint. I’ve embedded the full video above. But let me highlight a few of the important points that struck me during the session. Read the rest of this entry »

At the Idea Lab blog, where I’m part of a group working on projects related to the future of journalism, I have a new post today on our work in Second Life. As part of The Next Newsroom Project, we needed to build a version of our newsroom in this increasingly popular virtual world. I talk abot some of the challenges, especially for me since I had never been in-world before:

“After playing around with it for several evenings, I quickly realized that I could probably spend the entire year of my grant just learning how to make a chair in Second Life. So I went looking for some help. Fortunately, I found it at Duke University through the Information Science + Information Studies department.”

You can read the full post here.

In addition to my work at the Mercury News, I’m also part of a group blog hosted by PBS called IdeaLab. It’s a place where various folks working on projects related to the future of journalism write about their progress. Today I have a post over there about an event we held this weekend at the Mercury News called CopyCamp:

“This past weekend, as part of my day job at the San Jose Mercury News, we took a stab at that question by holding our first CopyCamp. What is CopyCamp? You can get the full background here from the idea’s author, David Cohn, who now has his hands full with his Knight project, Spot.Us.

But here’s the concept in a nutshell: Invite members of the community into the newsroom for an unconference to have a conversation about our news coverage. In our case, we decided to focus this particular CopyCamp on issues related to our coverage of race and demographics, one of the core stories at the Mercury News (the other being technology, of course).”

We had a good turnout from the newsroom and the community and I’m looking forward to continuing the discussion. You can read the full post here.