Brainstorming the Future
Moderator:
Josh Kinberg
- Founder of FireAnt, a desktop media player and RSS aggregator, and online “TV Guide” for videoblogs
Panelists:
- Kenyatta Cheese
- Founder of Unmediated.org. Professor of Portable Media and Internet Distribution at USC. Systems Administrator at Eyebeam, non-profit for Art and Technology research in NYC.
- Eli Chapman
- Founder of Mediatronica. Blogging at ChapmanLogic.
- Shawn Van Every
- Research Fellow focusing on Participatory Media at NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program.
- Ryan Shaw
- Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley’s School of Information and a researcher at
Yahoo! Research Berkeley.
- Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley’s School of Information and a researcher at
A lot has happened in the year+ since the first Vloggercon in New York City. Video sharing sites are exploding accross the web. The first mainstream portable video players have entered the marketplace. And web video is coming to a PVR in your living room soon courtesy of RSS syndication.
And yet we’re still defining participatory media and striving for ubiquitous media distribution.
So this is our chance to brainstorm together — face to face. Let’s throw it all together: technology, culture, politics, economics. Let’s talk about the future. Where do we want to end up next year and in the years to come?
Our brainstorming facilitators will be some of the luminaries behind Unmediated.org, a group weblog that tracks the decentralization of media.