dna 2008: aggregation of related feeds

The panel on "how to survive in the digital news age" just felt it appropriate to spell out the domain name for the Drudge Report. Drudge is a DJ, not a journalist, says the panelist from the Guerilla News Network. His tip for the "survival of news"? Get into virtual worlds and games.

"For big media, it's a struggle... you can't just disrupt your business model... but there are pockets of innovation" says Monique Villa, MD of someone from Reuters Media.  She thinks facebook is going down, "who wants to be on a social network your parents are on..." but believes that the FT's £2000 a year subscription based social network is an idea to watch.

Tyler Brule, Editor in Chief, Founder, Monocle Magazine and Wallpaper Magazine, thinks there on to something and has been looking at running face to face networking events in major cities following a successful trial in London.

They've lost my interest so I've gone off an created an aggregation of feeds to bring me anything tagged with DNA2008 from technorati, google blog search, icerocket, tweetscan and flickr. The back channel is just a trickle. Lots of notepads here.

[update: Monique Villa The person from rom Reuters revealed that they are working with a company that "takes a digital footprint" of all their content and tracks the way it's used and consumed. Not, she says, necessarily to track copyright abuse but to understand things like how people edit their photos and articles, where it's used, etc.]

[update 2: The panel ended with a discussion of the rise of the internet media critic. "7 years ago there were one or two media critics you worried about" said the panel moderator. "It's a daily consideration" responds Villa the person from Reuters]

Comments

[Rich Pearson]

I share your skepticism of virtual worlds, games or social networks being the savior. There doesn't appear to be a silver bullet, but I would argue that video has huge potential to enhance the story - provided media companies are able to capture acceptable value for all the content they distribute online.

I look forward to your posts for the rest of the conference!

btw, the person from Reuters is Maria Molland. More information on content tracking they employ here:

http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/531118.php

[Robin Hamman]

Thanks Rich!