I’m heading over to Cardiff shortly where I’ll be meeting several of my uncles for a weekend of rugby. Tomorrow I’ll be going to the Ireland - Wales international match. I’ve never been to Cardiff before and also never been to such a big sports event so I’m pretty excited
Light blogging for the next few days.
Scott Kirsner: “I would just note that most TV and movie execs think of user-gen as the Internet version of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” and that’s a mistake — it’s much broader and more diverse… and that pigeon-holing seems like the kind of thing that’s destined to lead to some strategic blunders”.
Jeff Jarvis: “That is the job of media, government, business, and technology: to enable us to make better connections, to set the conditions for our collaboration. But this will frighten them more than it has already.”
It has been really interesting following Jeff at Davos this year. Typically a conference for the elite, for the fist time I felt I was able to see inside it properly. How very interesting to see his observations of the rich and the powerful starting to realise that the internet is changing things in a big way. Even more interesting to hear him say how unprepared they are for their realisation of the shear magnitude of this change. They are in for a shock.
BusinessWeek: “Uploading video to the Internet is so 2006. Now the question is what to do with those clips once they’re in cyberspace.”
I’ve been waiting for an article about this subject for a while now. Digital asset management is the world that I live in and its pretty complicated. The internet disintermediates and it does this faster than people expect. The role of big film and TV companies will change in the comming years and they need to be paying attention to this.