Once again it's 80 and sunny in Miami and I am really dreading leaving South Florida. Something about below zero wind chill in New York may have something to do with it.
Last night when I got back to my hotel room I turned on the TV to check the news and found that the biggest story in the country was happening just a few files up I-95 in Hollywood, FL where Anna Nicole Smith died earlier in the afternoon. Geraldo Riviera was scheduled to be the We Media conference but apparently he is ditching the conference to join the media circus in Hollywood (Florida that is).
Today I did not even bother going into the conference hall. I stood outside, near a television monitor where I could watch/listen and still chat with folks in the hallway. It was only when Mark Glaser asked what I thought was the best question of the conference that I ducked back into the room to watch the panelists squirm:
Mark wrote:
I couldn't take it much longer, and finally got up to basically restate what I had blogged about yesterday, complaining that the unspoken context of this conference was Big Media trying to regain the control they had lost.
“What no one wants to admit is that the mainstream media has lost power and lost control to the people,†I said. “And Big Media is here to try to figure out how to exploit or make money off of citizen media. I’m not saying that they can’t be part of this new world, but they need to engage it in an authentic way.â€
