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Some notes from the Beyond Broadcast Conference. This is the talking heads day. Tomorrow will be more
discussion oriented. These notes are sketchy and incomplete. All from after lunch sessions. I missed the morning sessions. Feel free to skip this post if you’re not a participatory media geek. It’s more of a scrapbook for me. But if you want to geek out on it, fine.

Just heard from Brendon, the Blogger in Chief for Radio Open Source. I’m a big fan of the show/blog hosted by Chris Lydon.

Tom Geraci speaking now from Gather.com. He’s talking about what public media can deliver that swarms of individuals can’t. So what happens as things move from centralized media to individuals creating media? How to find good content on the blogosphere. Hard to comparison shop for blogs. Hard to evaluate trust. Hard for users to coneect over shared interests.

Throw out everthing you think you know about your audience, and realize this is a way to connect independent people to each other.

Intentionality.

If you can give the community tools to manage itself and the space to use it…..

Don’t be afraid to be a dictator.

It is a rhetorical space and the power of a concentrated if not singular voice that has something to say is still the driver.

Contributors. Challenges.

Gather is social media. Community where people create, rate, review, connect. Digglike?

Listen up—-Video production, network of youth media organizations. 117 of them in North America.
Share support, resources, provides funding, help w/film fests. Much of listen ups media distributed via “Public media.” listenup.org. This is so cool! The youth media program I run should connect to this!

It’s curated by the young people who use the listen up website. Kind of like a dating site. Kids can’t email each other directly, for safety purposes. Young peoples’ last names and locations not revealed. Young people have their own private space on the blog where they can get support and converse. Listen Up gets media from all over the world. “A Call for Tolerance.”

Power of networks. EBAY. Omidyar Network. Mission based investment network. 400 Million $ to invest in for profit and not for profit sectors. Group based collaborative tool to make investment decisions.

Ack. Falling asleep. I woke up too early to come up from NYC. OK, this Omidyar thing actually sounds pretty cool. They fund a lot of interesting projects.

Now there’s a 15 foot tall guy on a videoscreen behind the panel asking them questions. Intertwining of real world and internet world.

Balance between “Cool and good.”

Online digital divide.

Distribution isn’t the problem, attention is the problem, for public media, attention not a problem, monetization the problem.

Networked individualism.

Need for investigative reporting, big budget Video, still exists.

Don’t have to be slick to be popular. Tell compelling stories.