conferences
Traditionally, Iāve come to Le Web at the last minute ā the night before the conference kicks off ā and stayed a day afterwards. This time I did it the
branding
Really nice summation of the problem with the āpeople will always turn to trusted brandsā idea [http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2010-10-29/the-future-of-publishing-like-minds] that many people in traditional media companies cling to as their hope for survival: > The community gathers around its self-created experts, and with little cost structure
archiving
 Combined into one as it was done in one go: * Radiohead, Arcade Fire and OKGo are releasing the creativity into the wild and letting their fans
archiving
 Wow. Interesting start. Andrew Dubber [http://www.andrewdubber.com/] just started by saying that he was with Ed Milliband in opposing Steve Mooreās ideas on
aggregation
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/10/5122993838_de050e6767_o.jpg] The publishing immersive at the Like Minds conference in Exeter, hosted by Andrew Davies of [Idio](http://idioplatform.com/), is packed out. Itās literally standing room only, as weāve stolen all the seats
aggregation
A rather excellent rant from Mr Paul Bradshaw on theCurationĀ is KingĀ clichĆ© [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/06/17/lets-stop-this-curation-is-king-crap-right-now/] thatās doing theĀ roundsĀ right now. Go and read it, and then join me back hereā¦ Did you enjoy it? I think thereās an important point underlying all
alan patrick
Ouch. This is a painful, but compelling, read: > I walked off stage and immediately went to Brady and asked what on earth was happening. And he gave me a brief rundown. The Twitter stream was initially upset that I was talking too fast. My first response to this was:
We get distracted by thinking about how the technology could enhance our existing reporting methods, or in building places that our readers can talk to each other, or in grafting a little bit of social stuff on top of our traditional work, without really facing up to the massive changes
Last keynote of the day: Bernard Desarnauts of Glam Media and Tinker.com talking (in theory) about where the money is.Media is every-fragmenting. Blogs are growing as are social networks. Traffic is fragmenting around topics, and traditional sites are drawing a small and smaller amount of peopleās time.
