Beyond Broadcast

Saturday, February 24, 2007 by Dave Winer.

I'm at the MIT media conference, it's so well-attended I'm in an overflow room with good MIT-hosted free wifi. It's like watching a TV show with lots of familiar faces on the screen. Watching Doug Kaye (hi Doug!) sitting in front of a guy asking a question/giving a speech. John Palfrey my former Berkman colleague just gave a rousing Palfreyesque convocation following a Henry Jenkins keynote. I'm in a good mood at least partially because it's warm in here and so damned cold out there. 

Movie: Cab ride on Mass Ave crossing frozen Charles River. 

Movie: Henry Jenkins keynoting Beyond Broadcast conf. 

Jesse Walker is moderating the panel now, he looks strikingly like Scoble. Great line -- "...when people talk about Web 2.0 -- which I like to call (slight pause) The Web..."  

People in the overflow room can't ask questions, so if someone in the main room is reading this, please ask the Yahoo rep if they point to amateur journalism that isn't hosted on a Yahoo site? Amyloo submitted my question in the Second Life question tool for the conference. The moderator just explained the tool, but said they waren't going to watch it. Huh?? 

The preambles of the panelists are mind-numbingly boring. They ramble on and on. One of the panelists couldn't even make it to Boston. With all the incredible minds in the "audience" -- what a waste. My head keeps nodding. I've even noticed bits of drool forming in the corners of my mouth. Thank god for wifi. 

Papa Doc is blogging away over in the other room. So far nothing from him on the panel. Could his head be nodding too?? The guy in LA is rambling infinitely on and on ad infinitum. Zzzzz.' 

The Yahoo panelist says we can find real journalism on Flickr.