PubCamp - The Web 2.0 Media Day

Edited extract of the A.N. Smith lecture to be delivered tonight at the University of Melbourne. Michael Gawenda is a former editor of The Age. - Jed White via Bookmarklet

"Digital technology has made it easy to create new works from existing art, but copyright law has yet to catch up." - Jed White via Bookmarklet

After years of regarding pirated video on YouTube as a threat, some major media companies are having a change of heart, treating it instead as an advertising opportunity. - Jed White via Bookmarklet

Heather Armstrong’s wickedly funny blog about motherhood, Dooce, is more than just an outlet for the creativity and frustrations of a modern mother. The site, chock full of advertising, is a moneymaking machine — so much so that Ms. Armstrong and her husband have both quit their regular jobs. - Jed White via Bookmarklet

Courtesy of @nickhac - Jed White via Bookmarklet

With the newspaper industry in complete free fall as Q2 results arrive, there is some encouraging news: Newspaper Web sites are growing. - Jed White via Bookmarklet

Newsstand cover uses E Ink technology with embedded battery - Jed White via Bookmarklet

Worst drop in ad revenue since the great depression - Jed White via Bookmarklet

Free place to browse, share, archive and customize unlimited magazine articles uploaded by users. - Jed White via Bookmarklet

"Microsoft is testing a new pilot program that will let third party publishers add Microsoft’s contextual ads next to their content in a self-serve format." - Jed White via Bookmarklet

"we are far luckier than the textile and steel workers who have found themselves on the wrong side of globalization or technological change before us. As knowledge workers, we can benefit from the technologies that are threatening newspapers’ survival: No longer does one need a printing press to publish, only a personal computer, an Internet connection and an idea." - Jed White via Bookmarklet

Includes The Old Media Death Watch and much more - Jed White via Bookmarklet

PaidContent, specializing in coverage of the business of new media, will be acquired by the Guardian Media Group - Jed White via Bookmarklet

What the Internet is doing to our brains - Jed White via Bookmarklet

New technologies are developing that make displays flexible, foldable or even as rollable as papyrus, so that large screens can be unfurled from small containers. - Jed White via Bookmarklet

Folio coverage of MagCloud - Jed White via Bookmarklet

Well edited version of the panel discussion from Melbourne led by Mark Jones with panelists including Stephen Mayne (Crikey and Mayne Report), Kathy Bail (AFR Magazine), Stephen Collins (acidlabs), Luke Waldren (Abundant Media), Ben Gerholt (IDG), Stuart Clarke (homepage), David O'Sullivan (itechne) and questions from the floor including Duncan Riley (Inquisitor), Angus Kidman (LifeHacker) and Scott Drummond (Marketing Magazine). - Jed White via Bookmarklet

Some differences of opinion and heat in the discussion on this post incuding comments from @mediamum and @markhjones. - Jed White via Bookmarklet