The super panel covered a lot of ground, but wasn't nearly as dramatic as last year's, when the TechCrunch guy offended every real journalist in the room.
The panelists were:
Maria C. Thomas, vice president and general manager, NPR Digital Media, moderator
Josh Cohen, business product manager, Google News
Ian Clarke, founder, Thoof, Freenet Project,
Meredith Artley, executive editor, La; times.com
Anil Dash, chief evangelist, Six ApartMovable Type, Wordpad, other blogging software
My notes:
The Google Guy revealed that Google News has between 50-90 people, would not be more specific. (He was pretty cagey throughout.)
Dash- If you treat something as if it's valuable, people will think it's valuable. don't be afraid to ask people to pay. it builds affinity.
Artley - newspaper sites are limited because they are structured like the paper.
Clark - new thing is news in a more categorized way.
Dash - (OK you know this is my favorite part:) Let me take this opportunity to say to the people who run newspaper sites in this room. "Stop having anonymous comments on your site. It's inappropriate. You are not serving yourselves well. People are jerks when they're anonymous. You wouldn't put anonymous information in a story if you can't verify it. At least require a consistent user name."
Cohen - Google ranking: seeks story clusters, most important stories of the day. asks who's publishing it? How often? Where is it on the site?
Clark - we need to ask ourselves: What do we do? What are the special things that we do best?
Predictions:
Cohen: Nobody's solved the riddle yet on the content side
Artley: Things are going to be a lot more openied up, archives, traditional navigation we know wil get blown up.
Clark:
Dash: at least half of large media organizations will be rendered unrecognizable, and that's (probably) a good thing.
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