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Media Technology Summit by UC Berkeley at Google

Image via Wikipedia Dean Neil Henry, Adjunct Professor Alan Mutter (@newsosaur on Twitter) and the faculty and staff of the University of California at Berkeley have arranged a very interesting group of presenters and participants which are meeting at the Google headquarters in Mountain View California starting at 8:30 AM PDT September 30th and continuing [...]

Focus on Essential New Tasks

Image via Wikipedia As business models change, those who pursued the old model are often portrayed as stupid or evil. Creating a new model is very hard work. Our C3 work is all about exploring, and creating, new models. Many in our industry seem to be stuck on erecting walls around the old model. As [...]

Progress Report on C3 Organization

Image via Wikipedia People have asked me, often, why I don’t blog more about our progress in implementing our C3 organization. The last post was May 10th, a quarter ago. I try to wait until I have something to say. Something to say requires change. Change requires time. Sometimes too much time for my taste. [...]

A year of learning – what are we doing?

Cover via Amazon Summarizing a year of learning When starting this blog, a little over a year ago, I knew we needed to learn the attributes and explore the ramifications of a new mindset. We will not succeed in the new relationship economy with a mindset developed by and for the industrial production economy. Openness, [...]

NAA – MediaXChange Presentation

Image via Wikipedia I will be discussing our C3 organization, tasks and drivers on March 10 (starting with iMedia business model work at 3 PM CDT — 1 PM PDT) at the NAA MediaXChange in Las Vegas, using these slides, and will be live blogging during the presentation. For link to the slides, go to [...]

RIF to RIF

This blog, which started with the hope of outlining the concepts which would lead to a Rich Information Format to strengthen communities, has not been updated recently because of another RIF, all too common today, the Reduction in Force. As painful as this RIF was, we had no choice due to the abrupt decline in [...]

Earlier View

Neil Perkin shared his thoughts on the future of media in this slide show seven months ago. I just saw it yesterday. I wish I had seen it last June. Very succinctly, he outlines the need for, and concepts behind, our efforts here at C3. What do you think? [slideshare id=446900&doc=whats-next-in-media-1212594982381264-9&w=425]

Just Do It!

Image by luc legay via Flickr If it had not happened to me recently, I might not believe it. Despite David Cohn’s exhortations earlier this year, experienced, smart journalists, all atwitter, saying they could never Tweet or blog. Experienced journalists interviewing me on my blog, without reading the blog. Executives acting condescendingly toward social media. [...]

Information in the First Instance

Image via Wikipedia Being with Bill Densmore and the group he assembled at Missouri this week was a refreshing introduction to new people and ideas. We were gathered to create the “blueprint” for the Information Valet Project, which we tentatively described as: A permission-based ecosystem assuring privacy that allows you, in a trustworthy way, to [...]

New Game requires New Mindset

Image via Wikipedia When I started this blog over seven months ago, I focused on mindset, as I had the sense that a completely new game was beginning: Newspaper executives from around the world are trying to implement new business models. However, it is hard to implement a new model with an old mindset. Many [...]