Mesh Conference begins in Toronto

by mtippett | May 15, 2006 at 05:03 am

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The Mesh Conference is set to start in Toronto in a few minutes. Om Malik is giving the first keynote where we'll hear about the future of media. Mark Evans from the National Post is posing the questions. I will be posting updates throughout the day. This is what others are saying via technorati and delicious.

Here are some realtime chicken scratchings...

Om Malik is saying:

Traditional media more sanitized version of blogging
A lot of people in old media shouldn't be in the business. They have failed to innovate and the marketplace is beating them up.
Whether bloggers are 'journalists' is a question asked by people who have too much time.
The issue for old media is how they will attract a new group of news consumers who read all their news online.
Commities and consensus based organizations don't innovate.
Television is something for people who have had a bad day and just want to sit back with a beer.
Lifestyle, sports and business are the cash cows of the news business. Local news is not a cash center.
Silicon Valley breaks things for a living
Web 2.0 is not a technology, it is a new way of thinking.

Mark asks the traditional journalist question: Credibility, Cash and Content: Are these the 3 most important things in media? But these concerns come from inside the traditional media institutions. How much of this matters to new media producers and consumers? Many bloggers aren't interested in getting paid, credibility comes from personal relationships.