PodTech hosts “Progressive Journalists” program from Stanford
Last night John Furrier and the rest of the PodTech family hosted the Innovation Journalism Stanford fellows, many of them are from Sweeden, Finland and other countries.
During their tour they visited CNET, Red Herring, and the SF Chronicle, it was interesting to have them attend our small startup office after visiting those established media giants. More interestingly enough, is how we are compared to the Wall Street Journal which is just a few feet from our HQ, their loading doc is larger than our entire office.
One of the guests, Anders Frick shared with me the Swedish version of Techmeme called http://knuff.se/. As it ends up, Gabe Rivera, the creator of Techmeme stopped by. Tom Foremski made some interesting comparisons to our neighbor Wall Street Journal as “old and new media“. To me, mainstream and social media get along hand-in-hand. Our clients have asked me is it a replacement? I always respond it’s an “And” not an “Or”. Robert wasn’t there but quite a few people in his life are all connected in this small intricate web, including his former boss Steve Sloan, who was impressed by Furrier’s experience in technology and focus on media.
I was blogging in real time, and some guests found that it was interesting that we were publishing in real time, while some of them were working on issues for their July publications. I was also asked about the editorial process and fact checking, a conversation of ‘reporting’ vs ‘having a conversation’ was held.
I’m an outsider to the journalism industry, but having recently attended the WeMedia conference in Miami, I was able to make some interesting observations. I noted that this is an industry undergoing change.
Update: Marayam Scoble, a truly sweet person, shares why she likes working for John. Maryam helped to coordinate this event, it’s so often that event coordinators go unnoticed. I noticed, thanks Maryam and other PodTechlings, our first event at HQ was a success! Oh, and I loved the Persian food, what’s the name of the place?
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Thanks for the kind words and for the pictures and blogging the event. The place is called Robaii and it is on Hamilton in Palo Alto. I love their food
Hi Jeremiah!
Nice to meet you. Keep up blogging!
— Anders
[…] Jeremiah Owyang muses on his experience at a recent journalism meet-up at Stanford: “I was blogging in real time, and some guests found that it was interesting that we were publishing in real time, while some of them were working on issues for their July publications. I was also asked about the editorial process and fact checking, a conversation of ‘reporting’ vs ‘having a conversation’ was held.” […]
[…] Progressive student Journalists are starting to realize the value of New/Social media, and even visited us at PodTech, one will be working with us over the summer. […]
[…] A few months ago, I visited WeMedia conference in Miami, wow the journalism industry could not agree on who’s in charge and what direction to go. John Furrier, our CEO recently hosted Stanford’s Innovation Journalism program at our Palo Alto HQ, in fact we were lucky to score some great members of that organization for a summer internship. The San Jose Mercury News realizes a new set of tools is available. We welcome them to the distributed and two-way conversation. […]
[…] I’ll be at an event she’s involved with, the Stanford’s Innovation Journalism Conference, there’s a great lineup of speakers, I’ll see you there today, I plan on Ustreaming the event live. A few months ago, we hosted this group at headquarters. […]
[…] I hope that this group meets up with the Stanford Innovation Journalism program. To me, they should be bouncing ideas off each other in near real-time speed. I’ve already made some introductions via email. PodTech has hosted the Injo program at least twice. Here’s a few of the concepts that we talked about: Faster and Faster: From asynchronous to real-time. I showed them how communications are moving faster and faster with tools like Twitter and Ustream (a company I advise). As I launched Ustream (live video streaming with chat, watch the archive) Chris Heuer jumped into the chat room and started to ask questions and add to the conversation. That’s disruptive (in a good way). I’m speaking at Chris’s event the Social Media Club this Monday, and he added a very good point in the chat room. Editing still has an important role, as no one has time to watch JustinTV all the time, a 10 minute summary once a day in video format would really make it digestible. I recorded the live ustream video, usually I’d spend more time with aiming the camera, but this is more of a demo […]