Internet Week New York – A Brief Review

Last week I had the good fortune of being able to attend a number of events at the third annual Internet Week in New York City.

With so much going on in different venues all over the City, the toughest task was figuring out which ones to go to. Well, along with dealing with the hangover’s which come with the late night partying!

In short, the week was an awe-inspiring whirlwind of innovation and entrepreneurialism with the social web, mobile and the open web being common themes.

Of all of the events (and parties) that I attended, one which really stood out was a panel discussion at the Journalism Institute at New York University in downtown Manhattan, entitled ‘The Future of Media’ The panel focused on how the Internet and other digital media are transforming the traditional media landscape.

What attracted me to RSVP for this event was two-fold. Firstly, Arianna Huffington, Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of the Huffington Post, of which I am a big fan, was one of the panel members. The other reason was simply because of the title of the event ‘The Future of Media’. I mean, how could I resist?

The panel also consisted of Dan Abrams of Mediaite, Josh Cohen of Google News, David Eun of AOL Media, James Pitaro of Yahoo! Media and Cindi Leive, Editor in Chief of Glamour.

Overall, a really great panel discussion only hampered perhaps by the strict 60 minutes that were available. One of the highlights being Arianna’s dig at Rupert Murdoch’s ‘Paywall’ approach to content.
My only gripe was perhaps that the subject matter deserved a much longer session.

Watch here.

Other highlights included socialite and occasional TV presenter, Julia Allison discussing ‘over-sharing’ and privacy with Jeff Jarvis, creator of BuzzMachine.com and author of ‘What Would Google Do?’ and NBC4 New York discussing TV in the Age of Social Media. Both of these videos, as well as many others can be viewed at http://www.livestream.com/internetweekny