Re-Invent Media, Daily APAT.

Posted on | June 16, 2009 | No Comments

Sitting in an exam room watching 37 students write a communication exam is great time to think about where we are today, as far as media is concerned, and where we are going.

Of course if I could predict the future I would be laughing, but I like to think I have a window onto the minds that will invent the future media.

While the technology of the future is here now the use and content of for that future media is still on the drawing board.

And the problem with new media content is too many people leave the content on the drawing board.

Google, Twitter, YouTube, Blogger, wordpress, and the list goes on, all started as great ideas that were thrown out there and look at the result!

A new media revolution!

And the beauty of this new media revolution is that the old professors in the classroom, for the most part, when you talk new media are thinking in terms of convergence of print, radio, tv, and film! So what we are looking at in terms of new media is not only new delivery and integration BUT totally new content forms.

New media today is taking the old, tried, true and standard, and saying lets go new school and fast!

The obvious new communication vehicle is the mobile phone!

But the mobile still has not been cracked as an entertainment, information and general media hub.

Why not? Simply the old content providers have clouded our minds as to what new media might look like and deliver.

Check out this 15 second film and then imagine watching it on your phone as you wait for a bus.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/1319202[/vimeo]

Think about the power of this means of presenting ideas!

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/1319539[/vimeo]

What I wonder is why high schools and universities have not taken on the mobile and micro media as a means of delivering content APAT (any place any time)?

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