More from Ifra Newsplex -- live and in realtime (my writing, not your reading...)

• video conferencing is one of the tools that goes with the videowall. Thus you can do 4 remote links to the news deck.
• Big issue is the ubiquity of video cameras and how the tech will allow people to go around the established media upload and download structures. We are going to spend more time discussing this.
• Back to the news deck design: floors have 'trenches' that can hold cables and then be covered up, so even cables are needed they can be hidden.
• "scrim" system makes a grid of cables on top of room. Eventually all the physical media will have RF tags for identification--like the RF dogtags I researched two years ago.
After lunch: discussion of targeting information (advertising messages & more) The tech from the net via cookies can do this now, as in doing a search and then having ad correlated with one's search terms. This tech could provide personalized news, but the econ/biz models don't support its implementation yet. If news content is piggy-backed onto the advertising, is it ethical to put health ads up for somebody who is browsing health sites? Basic tech
• digital tech: Possibility of perfect copies and perfect copies of copies. The tech of SCMS serial copy managment systems is one attempt to fight this. Fritz Hollins leader of this movement.
• manipulation of digital data brings up issues of creation and protection of algorithms; storage, searching & backups. This will call for the incorporation of librarians into news operations.
• encryption--WEP,https:shtml, VPN
• networking technologies--ethernet, wireless, broadband or challenge of video. In home bband, cable modem, wireless, etc. In home not bband: ethernet, hpna (thru phones), wireless, homeplug (thru electricity)
• Computing technology: Moore's law, laptop growth, flat panel display, embedded computers
Consumer tech
• laptops replacing desktops, notebooks coming in, PDAs
• telephones morphing into network tools
• television--DVR, HDTV, flat panel
• Audio--MP3, digital radio
Digital Telephony
• info on demand in all media
• combo of digital "broadcast" of data storage capability of mobile phones.
Enterprise tech--this tech is out in the world, but there isn't a system for news operations that puts it all together at this point in time. The demand is not there yet from the newsrooms--they use kludges now. FCC rules may speed this up.
• data clusters, web services (XML, SOAP,J2EE,MOS)
• Intelligent agents
• Relational databases
Today's Newspapers
• Readership aging, read less, know the old talking heads not the new, they still want to be informed, but how will they get the info?
Today's Television
• TV still primary news source, local news 3 hours or more per day but the 22 min. "newshole" is still a limit
Today's Internet
• Adjunct to other media, econ model is key variable, no limitations on newshole
• Jan Schafer? check her out--J-Lab
New Media tech
• Internet, Wireless journalism, digital television bandwidth, wireless consumer tech, electronic paper, Internet++