Web+10

What have we learned from the past 10 years of development of the Fourth Medium? What do we need to know to move boldly into the next phase of digital delivery and discourse? Here is a summary of some of the ideas discussed by Web news veterans, online editors, journalists, bloggers, experience designers, and alternative news producers at Poynter’s Web + 10 seminar:

• Audio summary from day 1
• Audio summary from day 2
• Audio summary from day 3
• Content manifesto team Weblog
• Comments from Neil MacIntosh
• Comments from Steve Yelvington
• More comments from Steve Yelvington
• Comments from Jess Barron of Yahoo!

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It's a very sad state of online affairs that after 10 years we actually think that the way to present a summary of three days of collaboration about the medium is to put it into three audio files that are narrated.

How absolutely AWFUL!

First, it's boring.

Second, it makes no sense on many different levels. Why would I want to sit and LISTEN to someone tell me something in a very linear way, when I COULD have much easier scanned some bullet points? (At my own pace.)

Not only that, I could have easily taken those bullet points and SHARED them with a group via email. How can I do that with audio? ("OK, group, go here and listen to the second day audio file and when you get around 1:16 in, it gets really good.") AS IF!!!

It's even MORE sad that the people who thought of making this an "audio discussion" are supposed to be recognized as "industry leaders."

It's pathetic. Just because you CAN make something an audio file (or in many cases a video file) doesn't mean you SHOULD.

Wake up and do what makes sense, not what seems "cool." Haven't we learned that in 10 YEARS!!!!?????

Posted by Jim Wilson at February 16, 2005 5:12 PM

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