Tonight: Cybersalon — Elitism In The Media, Blogging & Podcasting

Who’ll be chatting?

John Markoff
Lisa Stone
Jory DesJardins
Steve Gillmor
Joshua Greenbaum

Moderator: Andrew Keen

The write-up:

“Bloggers and podcasters are suspicious of “elitist” big media and view the “democratizing” force of digital technology positively. In contrast, many traditional journalists regard most blogs, wikis and podcasts as amateurish and narcissistic. We wonder if expertise is, by definition, elitist. And we ask if expertise and elitism might indeed be necessary features of a high-quality media.

A Cybersalon panel of experts – including NY Times technology reporter and author John Markoff, BlogHer cofounders and bloggers Jory des Jardins and Lisa Stone, and blogger/podcaster/digital reporter Steve Gillmor — takes a critical look at the concepts of expertise and elitism in the dynamic Web 2.0 world.”

The details:

BERKELEY CYBERSALON
5-7 p.m., Sunday, March 19, 2006
Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St., Berkeley

Seeya tonight…

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