Austin Bay Blog

I will be moderating a panel at the Blog World Expo in Las Vegas at 12:15 pm Saturday, September 20th. (Las Vegas Convention Center. Go here for the conference schedule.)

The panel is titled “The Blogosphere in Transition.”

Panelists include Pam Spaulding (pamspaulding.com), Bridget Magnus (BridgetMangnus.com), Roger L. Simon (Pajamasmedia.com and rogerlsimon.com) and Rob Neppell (NZ Bear of truthlaidbear.com)…and there may be more.

My column this week on “the media’s trillion dollar question” provides a little background. A version of this column may appear in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Sunday.

For example:

The terms “new” and “old” media tend to distort rational discussion about the change in the way people access information.

Since this is a newspaper column, the odds are good you are reading it on paper, or on a newspaper’s Website — or perhaps on one of the Internet’s “news and opinion” sites.

Here’s why I think new and old distort or artificially divide debate into opposing media camps. There is good, informative journalism produced with integrity, and there is something far less — the dreck of spin, gossip and propaganda. There is quality entertainment, be it high, low or middlin’ brow, and then there is utter schlock.

New and old media both provide the good, the dreck, the quality and the schlock.

The key is new technology offering new opportunities for creativity and communication. The column mentions “convergence media” (like my ArenaUSA channel and pajamsmedia’s new on-line tv programming) and I’m sure the panel will address it.

If you’re at the conference, I hope you’ll attend the panel presentation.