For me, media is about the distribution of high quality information and entertainment. It’s about the exchange of money for that entertainment. That’s the media economy. He thinks the media economy is in “deep sh**.” Recently Radiohead tried to figure out a new business model for online, they should allow people to set their own […]
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Jim Citrin
December 3, 2007 – 9:11 am
Jim is a executive headhunter. Last night at dinner someone stopped him to talk about enhanced metadata and standards, she thought he did a different kind of “search.” He’s asking a series of questions: Where are you in your career? first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, fourh courter, retired How do you assess yourself in […]
Rob Glaser
December 3, 2007 – 8:48 am
He’s going to talk about something outside of work, Real Networks. A joint effort of the Glaser Progress Foundation and the Center for American Progress. They want to treat “progressive” like a brand that is nutured and managed, just like any other brand. They want to educate Americans about what it means to be a […]
Adam Savage
December 2, 2007 – 7:41 pm
The Mythbuster guy! He’s doing a Q&A with himself, hopping from chair to chair. He says he’s been thinking a lot about Open Source, he’s been trying to think of what’s next. He sees an amazing thing happening with Make, Craft, Intsructables, Lifehacker, people are trying not only to parse their world, but take it […]
Keith Black
December 2, 2007 – 6:38 pm
Performs 200-300 neurosurgeries a year. He’s a surgeon. He’s dona bout 7,000 operations for brain tumors. He’s also a researcher to try and find better treatments for patients with disorders in the brain. 99% of the procedures that we practice today started in his lifetime. It started with Egyptians, recorded how to relocate a shoulder, […]
Liz Diller
December 2, 2007 – 6:00 pm
Architecture fundamentally challenges the assumptions and conventions of space. She’s gathered a sample of work that demonstrates “productive Nihilism.” High defitinion has become the new othedoxy. They created an exhibition space which was a cloud, like fog. Fog pyramids, about 300 feet wide, sits on 4 delicate columns. The system is reading the real weather. […]
Peter Gelb
December 2, 2007 – 5:57 pm
General manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. They have an annual budget of 250-260mm a year. He worked there as an usher when he was young. He has no formal musical training, but he’s now running the world’s biggest opera house. It’s interesting to be juxtapositioned with Liz because she’s transforming Lincoln Center […]
The Entertainment Gathering 