Birds of a feather lunch ideas?
Posted Wed Mar 12 12:38:18 -0700 2008We'd like a few people to volunteer to host completely informal discussions over lunch. Not required, but nice for people who know they have something to talk about to make sure they get the chance and also for shy persons to know they can show up somewhere and be welcome.
We'd like them to be, like the conference, open and potentially interesting to, people from different places. So "All NPR folks come talk about office politics" should be arranged privately. (just an example, not to pick on NPR, you know I love you all)
I'd like to talk about how to get all the money in tech (at least till the next bubble bursts) supporting worthwhile ventures to expand the coverage and access of underserved communities.
Also, whether it's possible to design content-creation mechanisms that get people (especially neighbors) collaborating across socio-economic lines or national boundaries.
And, well I'm interested in everything, so someone else speak up!

I would attend your lunch, for sure, Persephone, and I would also offer up a topic "Better Media, Stronger Democracy: connecting efforts in the journalism and academic worlds to the grassroots media activists and the policy advocates community."
Short and snappy titles are not my forte, unfortunately.
I guess there are three areas that I would like to focus on that others might find useful - as a journalist/academic who runs a media think-tank in London (Polis/LSE) with a book coming out on networked journalism I would be interested in hosting chats on:
1 What do we research to make this stuff happen?
2 How do we raise the quality of the debate in Europe?
3 What changes happen to the journalist in a social participation media?
Cheers
Charlie