http://www.podcastasylum.com/imeme Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:34:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Or, more accurately, Zing doesn’t have podcasting. I hadn’t heard of Zing before the iMeme conference, so when I saw the sponsor display in the hall, I asked about it. Zing, as it turns out, is the connector between providers of content and various kinds of mobile devices like the ... http://www.podcastasylum.com/imeme/2007/08/24/podcasting-doesnt-have-zing-yet/ At 8:30 AM on Friday, July 13th, I found myself at the “Lessons of the Digital Media Revolution” breakout session almost by default. I don’t listen to a lot of music, so the way the Internet is changing the music industry interests me primarily because of possible parallels to other ... http://www.podcastasylum.com/imeme/2007/08/13/drm-was-always-a-lousy-idea/ And in all honesty, I’m one of them. I’ve been online since 1985, when I discovered BITNET as an undergraduate, sitting at a terminal connected to the campus mainframe. Most of the people using BITNET were computer science majors and may actually have known what they were doing. I was ... http://www.podcastasylum.com/imeme/2007/08/10/most-people-have-no-idea-how-the-internet-works/ The opening panel of iMeme 2007 posited that Google, Second Life, Facebook, and Salesforce.com are (becoming) platforms rather than applications. Moderator David Kirkpatrick asked whether becoming a platform was the ultimate goal for a technology company. The responses from the panelists tend to suggest it is, at least for them—but ... http://www.podcastasylum.com/imeme/2007/08/08/the-devil-is-in-the-metadata/ The opening panel (“Platforms for the Next Net”) risked making us feel old, at least when we were listening to Mark Zuckerberg talk about Facebook. The first MyMeme segment guaranteed it: seventeen-year-old Catherine Cook, co-founder of myYearbook.com, was definitely the youngest person at the conference. The thing about myYearbook.com is, somebody ... http://www.podcastasylum.com/imeme/2007/08/07/kids-need-their-own-toys-so-do-grown-ups/ Actually, I interview people all the time, but they’re clients, and I’m asking them to tell me all the details so I can condense them, later, into writing. No one hears those hours of MP3 recordings but me. Recording an interview to be played on a podcast is something different, ... http://www.podcastasylum.com/imeme/2007/08/06/interviewing-is-hard/ At first glance, Herman Miller seemed like an odd choice of sponsor for a technology conference, but when I walked into the main conference room and saw the rows of Aeron work chairs, I understood. The conference attendees, with the possible except of those of us with press badges, were ... http://www.podcastasylum.com/imeme/2007/08/05/aeron-chairs-were-not-designed-for-conferences/ Andy Serwer, Fortune's Managing Editor, does not like the word “meme.” And David Kirkpatrick, the conference organizer, complained of people calling to ask what this “i-Mimi” conference was about. (Or maybe that was “I-Me-Me,” the conference for narcissists.) Next year's conference is already scheduled for July 2008 in Half-Moon Bay, ... http://www.podcastasylum.com/imeme/2007/08/04/the-word-meme-still-has-some-propagating-to-do/ Technorati Tags: imeme There’s been a lot of debate over the last few years about whether bloggers and podcasters constitute “the media,” or rather, about whether bloggers are journalists and entitled to the same privileges and protections as members of the so-called Old Media. For purposes of the Fortune iMeme conference, bloggers ... http://www.podcastasylum.com/imeme/2007/08/01/we-really-are-the-media-but-that-doesnt-make-me-a-journalist/ The first I heard about Fortune’s iMeme conference was not a press release or a magazine avertisement, but an e-mail message from Shel Holtz of the For Immediate Release podcast: Could you listen to the interview Neville and I conducted with Fortune magazine’s David Kirkpatrick? (It’s on the FIR site.) You’ll ... http://www.podcastasylum.com/imeme/2007/07/31/an-introduction-to-imeme/