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The next generation of technology within the digital home will bring with it not only more content to the consumer, it will bring with it greater choice and more individual personalization into the process. While the actual definition of the digital home is still emerging, the idea of a fully connected consumer, living in a high speed DTV, PVR, HD, broadband and wireless environment is a good jumping off place.

Nevertheless, with the growing power of broadband, mobile, IPTV, social networks, blogs and other non-traditional news sourcing, the role, the path of the future and the general understanding of how to structure a national news gathering and distribution organization is the ongoing question for our industry. The power and voice of news continues, but the role of our great institutions is in flux.

Tune in Thursday for live video of the media summit, with live interviews from Naked Media.
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It was striking at the Media Summit in New York today how definitive the people on the future of advertising panel seemed compared to the more unsettled tone of the one on the future of news. [...]

Check out the live stream of Digital Hollywood’s Media Summit from McGraw Hill building in NY. We will be grabbing on-camera interviews as can, as well, for Naked Media, most with host Dorian Benkoil.
Check out stream and catch the interviews here.
And follow Dorian’s Tweets and others’ from the hashtag #ms09.

According to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, American families were 18% poorer by the end of 2008 than when the year first started.

Not a single candidate ever mentioned poor people during the campaign. Everything was about the middle class. The middle class was always positioned against rich people, the top 5%.

I’ve always thought it would be brilliant for CBS to replace Katie Couric with John Stewart to deliver the nightly news like it’s never been done before. News Anchors just read the teleprompter. It would be nice if they delivered some objective commentary as well.

Google tells publishers to update privacy policies they have with their viewers. Their behavioral tracking just went to 11.

When the Ford exec stood up and started talking all about social media at the Digiday Social conference, I tweeted a challenge to him: Sure, you’re tweeting with customers, and training your top execs who are learning all about social platforms, and relating personally with customers. But what about doing what Jeff Jarvis recommends in [...]

Register now to attend a free live video webcast of the Digital Hollywood Media Summit in NYC on March 18 & 19. We’ll be broadcasting straight to your desktop starting @ 9am EST on Wednesday March 18, through the end of the day, and again starting @ 9am on Thursday morning.