Half an Hour

This post responds to the fifty questions posed by Richard Gingras at the Newsgeist Unconference in Hamburg, Germany. He chairs the board of Village Media and is a co-founder and board member of the global Center for News, Technology, and Innovation.  My response comes from two perspectives: first, as an observer and commentator on news and new media generally, and second as a sometime journalist with my own online publication . I'll present Gingras's questions in italics. Why are we here? Gingras is asking why people are at the conference, and I'm not there. Why am I not there? Because they're still doing conferences like this in person.  The internet, for all its benefits, disrupted publishing and public discourse in ways we do not fully understand. How do we address that?  The conference addresses traditional media for the most part - it's sponsored by organizations like the Knight Foundation - and from my perspective I think it is important to understand that ...