May 2006

No, there’s no typo in the title.

Bill Buzenberg of Minnesota Public Radio demonstrated this morning at “Beyond Broadcast 2006″, very interesting new “broadcast-conversations” applications based on the Web involving the audience.

In many of the scenarios presented, journalists become more or less “analysts” of the massive data they get after submitting story proposals. They first do the voxpop before going to the specialists.

So that’s where it comes from. I’ m proposing a term for this new function: “Jounanalists”, resulting of course from the combination of journalist and analyst.

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So I’m sitting right there, waiting for the event to begin.

Beyond Broadcast 2006 is loaded with great, experienced speakers with all possible backgrounds: braodcasters, journalists, technologists and so on. The theme is important:

We will explore the thesis that traditional public media — public broadcasting, cable access television, etc — face a unique opportunity to embrace new participatory web-based media models — podcasting, video blogs, social software, etc — and create a stronger and more vital public service.

And if I’ m lucky, my MMB demo will work fine this afternoon! I’ll try to report later.

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