I’m spending much of Wednesday and Thursday at Stanford University at the , who leads the Innovation Journalism program at Stanford. I’m speaking on a panel on Thursday afternoon.
That’s exactly what I’ve been seeing and saying the past few years. The media industry is where there is an enormous amount of innovation occurring - and where you find a lot of innovation that’s also where you see massive disruption.
My Japanese readers have been particularly intrigued with this concept of Silicon Valley as Media Valley. Last year I was featured in Nikkei business magazine on this topic–this is Japan’s largest business magazine. Tokyo Week newspaper sent its New York editor to interview me about another local media sensation: LonelyGirl 15.
And earlier this year a TV crew from Japan’s most prestigious and largest TV channel, the equivalent of PBS, came over to my living room to kick off a week-long investigative piece on Silicon Valley and its transformation into Media Valley.
There is a quick video at the end of this post which I took as they walked in and we chatted about what we would talk about. I’m always flattered by such attention but it always feels like a hall of mirrors …media talking about media. But then again, media loves talking about media.
That’s what we’ll be doing the next couple of days at Stanford, media talking about media. Join us if you can.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=S7sNxTlqIyI
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[BTW I’m heading over to Japan next week for almost a week as a guest of Lunarr - visits with Japanese startups and also Japanese government innovation officials, and much more… details to follow. I can’t wait, it’ll be my first visit!]
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