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June 21, 2007
Today's presentation
My presentation from today at the BREW '07 conference, "User-generated Content and the Future of Mobile Media," can be downloaded here.
Before you click on that link, keep in mind that it is a gigantic uncompressed powerpoint file (41MB) and also that the embedded video usually doesn't work because of how powerpoint likes to point at files instead of embed them. (Or, more likely, because I simply don't know how to use powerpoint effectively.)
Feel free to plagiarize any content that was obviously created by me, however the 3rd-party content that I used for example I cannot grant permission to, so use your best judgement. (Though it is all attributed, so feel free to contact the owner directly.)
UPDATE: (6/21) To the scary guy who accosted me after my presentation: I was not "bashing" the media industry. I was explaining that the new media industry and the traditional media industry are colliding, and it is causing friction. The fact that the traditional media industry is in some ways helping its own demise is not my problem. If consumers prefer to get their "truth" from journalists who lie or from ordinary people who lie is irrelevant, but the point is that I EXPECT journalists NOT to lie, plagiarize or fabricate.
UPDATE #2: (6/21) I am sitting here with Mark Ewen, who just pointed out that tonight's Goo Goo Dolls concert is on the U.S.S. Midway. Which is a carrier. And there will be wireless carriers there. And then the jokes started: "Carriers on a carrier. har har." "Does this carrier have wireless?" "They could change the name to the "U.S.S. RTT." He thought this was worth blogging about. I think we are an industry full of geeks.
Posted by Shawn Conahan at June 21, 2007 07:58 AM
Comments
"Scary guy" here. So unfortunately you don't like when people bring up the issue that maybe your presentation is a bit slanted to portray media and government as the "bad" people. I do not disagree with you that new media industry and the traditional media industry are colliding. To my point, unfortunately, you never stated once that a lot user generated content is actually "illegal" and unfairly abused, aside from Viacom's statement. You did however mention several times how bad and untrustful traditional media throughout your ppt. We can continue our discussion at the Goo Goo Dolls if you'd like :)
Posted by: scary guy at June 21, 2007 06:14 PM
No, I like it.
Media and government are only the "bad people" when they lie, misrepresent, fabricate or mislead based on bias or agenda. Thankfully we can all trust our journalists and politicians not to do such things. I gave specific examples that showed how user-generated content can be a counterbalance to traditional media.
I stated many times that a lot of user-generated content is illegal, which is in part responsible for causing the rift between new media and traditional media. (See pages 19, 20, 21, 29 and 32.)
Beers are on me tonight if we run into each other. (Well, since they are free.)
Posted by: Shawn Conahan at June 21, 2007 09:27 PM
This was the best presentation I saw at the BREW conference. Not only was the content provocative, but the way you crystallized the social networking opportunity for carriers was spot-on.
Thanks for making it available for download and good luck to you and Intercasting.
Posted by: Adam at June 22, 2007 03:26 PM
Nice presentation Shawn. Any chance you can post the videos and audio? They didnt seem to make it?
thx
Posted by: chris at July 2, 2007 03:35 PM
Thanks. I am traveling on narrowband right now, but yes, I will post them to our dropbox as soon as I get back to the office later this week.
Posted by: Shawn Conahan at July 3, 2007 12:27 AM