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Audience Conference Bans Liveblogging, Tweeting
The conference, organized by 1938 Media in Manhattan's Midtown neighborhood today, banned liveblogging and tweeting. Attendees, according to Internet Evolution, the "audience" there was actually an audience. No one "is Tweeting out the quotes, bit by bit; no one is live-streaming the sessions; there is no Twitter board to which people try desperately to post snarky comments."
Instead of creating content about the conference, audience members were learning how to maintain an audience, particularly one that is "a monetizable audience," in today's digital world.
ThinkerNet contributor Andrew Keen, for example, argued earlier today that Web figureheads like Michael Arrington and Robert Scoble "make the audience believe they are 'collaborators' while still maintaining authority, and, as such, the belief that the Internet is empowering the "untalented, ignorant, and narcissistic" masses is a "farce."
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