17/06/06
Recent Podcasts
Jamie Byng on the future of publishing, as part of a Guardian weekly entertainment podcast.
Lots of updates at the increasingly contented BEA podcast site: HP’s controversial ex-CEO Carly Fiorina; Don Tapscott on Web 2.0 in publishing (a bit of a major disappointment, to be honest); Michael Cader (yes, the anooying one from Publishers Marketplace) sounding actually quite smart in conversation with Chris ‘Long Tail’ Anderson; I may comment on these as I listen to them again.
The reason the Tapscott was so disappointing was that there was a huge amount of self-aggramndisement without showing any real insight into the problems of publishing. He was at pains to show how connected he is, and has been, for the last 20 years at least, and all the very important people he has influenced. But really, did he tell publishers how to harness new media and WEB 2.0? Not that I heard. I also tried to hunt out the panel he talked about - where the kids talked about their media consumption and got a standing ovation - and finally found it at his site. At the risk of self-aggrandising, I was relieved that I actually understood what these kids were talking about and have a pretty similar experience. Still, as a new dad I am also at pains to prove I’m down with the kids, so you can take that with a pinch of salt.
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[…] In some ways, this relates to the views of Don Tapscott, who talks (I think) about Screenagers in the video I linked to last week. Basically, that the yout’ is growing up, as Mr Saatchi says, fluent in technology and multi-threaded communications. […]