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AUDIO: Tom Stites, Jeff Vander Clute discuss Banyan/Thrive

In this 18-minute audio, entrepreneur and software developer Jeff Vander Clute (creator of the Thrive News Community Platform) speaks with Tom Stites, developer of the Banyan Project, about the overlap between their two ideas. The spoke by phone on Sept. 17, 2010.  Click on the carat to the left of the bar below to launch streaming audio, or download the MP3 podcast (4MB) for offline listening.

EXAMPLE OF A THRIVE COMMUNITY.

AUDIO: Explaining the Information Trust Association idea

In this 22-minute audio podcast, Bill Densmore of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) explains the evolution of the Information Trust Association idea. Accompanying the audio is a slide deck which can be viewed at: http://www.newshare.com/ita.pdf Densmore spoke at RJI on June 24, 2010, during a conference entititled: "From Blueprint to Building: Making the Market for Digital Information." For details follow the links from http://www.infovalet.org . You can also download the MP3 podcast for offline listening, or click on the carat below, if visible, to launch the audio immediately.  

AUDIO: Five-minutes about InfoValet on WJR Detroit's Frank Beckman show

In this five-minute audio podcast, CircLabs Inc. co-founder and Information Valet Project director Bill Densmore talks with Frank Beckman, live on WJR-AM Detroit, about an idea for one-ID, one-account, one-bill access to web news information and about the Information Trust Association idea.

Beckman invited Densmore onto his morning talk program after reading a post on the Nieman Journalism Lab website by Martin Langeveld. The post suggested the news industry could "liberate content, skip negotiates and still get paid" by developing a dynamic pricing system for online content.  Click on the carat on the right of the bar below to launch streaming audio, or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening.

AUDIO: Charging for content: A discussion among editors at ASNE April 13

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A sober discussion about a hot topic -- should news organizations charge for online content -- played out April 13, 2010 in Washington, D.C. The occasion was the annual meeting of the American Society of News Editors. The title of a one-hour session: "Charging for Digital Content: Fix or Folly?" Moderator was James M. Brady, digital editorial consultant, Allbritton Communications, Great Falls, Va.; Merrill Brown, founder and Principal, MMB Media, LLC (and a consultant to Journalism Online LLC), New York; Kenneth J. Doctor, Affiliate Analyst, Outsell/Content Bridges, Burlingame, Calif.; and Walter E. Hussman Jr., President and CEO, WEHCO Media, Little Rock, Ark. Click on the carat to the left of the bar below to stream the audio (1 hour, 3 minutes, 25 seconds), or download an MP3 podcast  (15.22MB) for offline listening. 
 

AUDIO: The news social network -- InfoValet explained in six minutes

How would a news social network work to sustain journalism, provider consumers better control over their privacy, and enable new forms of content sharing and benefits? Bill Densmore is a 2008-2009 fellow at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. He is directing the Information Valet Project. In a six-minute excerpt from a recent conversation, Densmore explains in an audio clip how an InfoValet Service might work. Click on the carat to the left of the bar below to launch streaming video or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening.  (6 mins., 11 seconds; 1.5 MB)

AUDIO: InfoValet survey research findings reported

A four-member student team at the University of Missouri discusses their findings of a 200-person  web and personal focus-group survey about public attitudes toward paying for "content" on the web or receiving things of value in exchange for giving up personal demographic information. The discussion took place March 17, 2009 at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.  Listen to streaming audio by clicking on the carat to the left of the bar below, or download an MP3 audio podcast for offline listening.  (11 min., 36 seconds; 2.79MB)  / SURVEY RESULTS NARRATIVE / ANSWERS (pdf)

AUDIO: Bill Densmore interviewed in KTRS St. Louis about IVP

Can news organizations figure out a way to increase the value they receive for journalism on the World Wide Web? McGraw Milhaven, talkmaster on KTRS Radio in St. Louis, interviews Bill Densmore of the Information Valet Project. Densmore is a 2008-2009 Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow at the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Mo. Listen to a 25-minute excerpt, followed by three minutes of Milhaven talking with a caller. Click on the carat at the left of the bar below to launch the audio stream (28.37 mins.), or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening. You can also READ A TRANSCRIPT of the interview.

AUDIO: Steve Mott on the InfoValet transaction opportunity

There's a significant opportunity to create a new, web-based infrastructure for information transactions, says consultant Steve Mott. A former senior VP of electronic commerce at MasterCard International, and expert on digital payment systems in banking and other industries, Mott is helping plan the InfoValet prototype. He explains the opportunity in this excerpt from "Blueprinting the Information Valet Economy," Dec. 4, 2008 at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Mo. Click on the carat to the left of the bar below to launch audio stream, or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening.  (6 minutes, 46 seconds File Size: 1.62 MB)

6 minutes, 46 seconds File Size: 1.62 MB

AUDIO: Tom Evslin on networks and newspapers

The Internet elevates the network to a premier business-strategy position. If a new service can bring together millions of users with millions of products, the efficiency of the public Internet makes large-scale commerce possible at low incremental cost. But how do you build a network from scratch? Tom Evslin worked at Microsoft Corp., started AT&T's pioneering WorldNet network, and then ran and sold for millions a voice-over-IP telephony company. Now living in Vermont, Evslin joined "Blueprinting the Information Valet Economy via Skype on Dec. 4, 2008 at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Mo.to explain why the newspaper industry may have a shot at being the next big network. Click on the carat to the left of the bar below to launch an audio stream, or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening. (19 minutes, 4 seconds / File Size:
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AUDIO: Doc Searls: When users control vendor relationships -- is it still advertising?

Modern marketing and technology have made it easy for vendors to take control of the relationship consumers. They maintain databases of our purchases, our preferences and our habits. This isn't necessarily bad. But Doc Searls of the Berkman Center on the Internet & Society at Harvard University suggests that might be even better if consumers were able to control the use of their "persona" and if that data were portable at the user's preference. Searls discussed this paradigm shift on Dec. 4, 2009 during a "Skype" session at "Blueprinting the Information Valet Economy, at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Mo. His vision would be enabled by The Information Valet Service. Click on the carat to the left of the bar below to launch an audio stream, or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening.  (Duration: 13 mins., 27 seconds. File Size:3.23 MB)

Excerpts from Doc Searls' Dec. 4, 2008 talk at Blueprinting the Information Valet
Economy:

"I think there's a whole new world that can open to advertisers as the social web becomes more agile on the user's side and better connections can be made between the two and relationships can develop."

"I have my doubts whether it's still advertising when that's done. There are lots and lots of efforts, I think Bill's is primary among them, to change the advertising model, make it more involved with the receivers of the advertising and making it more accountable and adaptable and
appropriate.

"The problem advertising however is it is still speculative, it is still guesswork. And there is a limit to how much you can improve guessworK. And when it isn't guesswork anymore, I don't know if it is still advertisng.

"I think there is a big gray area that needs to be built out and I think most of the building is not going to be done by the traditional advertising companies -- including Google at this point, i think Google is
going to be supportive of it, but they are now the man, they have the big machine the have their business model in place. I think there needs to be more innovation coming in from the edge."

SOURCE: Conference, "Blueprinting the Information Valet Economy" --
http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Event-blueprint

VIDEO: Doc Searls (and other) presentations:
http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-video