SUBJECT: Media Future Now: TUES 12/15, 5:30pm to 7pm - “New Media Law 2009 + Cocktails”

Spring is right around the corner! While that might not be technically correct and the pilot light seems out on the 2009 furnace, what IS right around the corner (TUESDAY DECEMBER 15th, in fact) is Media Future Now’s annual holiday fete, at the New America Foundation, 1899 L St, NW, 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20036 (Farragut North and Farragut West metros), at 5:30pm. For the parched among you, holiday refreshments of the cocktail variety will be served.

Media Future Now will make its triumphant Fall return to the starved new media environment that is our nation’s capital for a special evening event on MONDAY OCTOBER 19th at the New America Foundation, 1899 L St, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20036 (Farragut North and Farragut West metros), at 5:30pm. Refreshments of the happy hour variety (and varietals) may be served.

Please join us THIS THURSDAY JUNE 4th at New America Foundation, at 12:15pm, for Media Future Now’s brown bag lunch: “Behavior Targeting: Advertising Where it Counts”.

Please bring a bag lunch and we will provide refreshments and snacks. Thank you to Shana Glickfield for leading our planning for our June 4th event. Please also see the JOB OPENING (below) from our friend Kara Reinsel of AOL.

Date: THURSDAY JUNE 4
Time: 12:15pm to 1:45pm

If the thinking behind a liberal approach to web content sharing is driving traffic back to your original content source, what happens when the benefits of doing exactly that – i.e. bumping up traffic for potential advertisers – fails to generate the hoped-for commercial return?

To all those (un) lucky souls who will NOT be joining our early-adopter friends in Austin this weekend ...

A reminder to please join us at Google, this coming Tuesday March 17 at 12:15pm for Media Future Now’s March 2009 brown bag lunch. (DETAILS AT BOTTOM)

Our discussion this month will be “Tough Times: Finding Talent, Advancing a Career, and Building Diversity in New Media in a Troubled Economy”.

Guests:
Onica Makwakwa, UNITY (Executive Director).
Chris Murphy, Atlantic Media Company (GC & Executive Director for HR).
Harry Weiner, ON-Ramps (CEO and Founder).

When David Carr wrote recently in his Media Equation column that “there is a rational argument to be made that the part of the [newspaper] apparatus that has a working business model, declining or not, should receive the resources”, he was talking about the print side of newspapers.

Crossposted on K Street Cafe. Randall Lane wrote a provocative piece in Monday’s New York Times suggesting a “ballot buddy system” among the states to permit apportioning of electoral votes among counties or congressional districts.

I’m not a gamer, and at a recent Social Rockstar Workshop with Chris Melissinos, Chief Gaming Officer of Sun Microsystems, when the question was asked “Who in this room identifies themselves as “gamers”, maybe a quarter of the Social Media Rockstar group raised their hands. Melissinos surveyed the room and laughed, “Well, that’s great, and the rest of you are and you don’t realize it yet.”

Our friend Tim Hartman of Atlantic Media’s Government Executive Media Group is seeking a Manager of Online Products. If interested in the position, please contact Atlantic Media, via www.atlanticmediacompany.com, or contact Tim directly at THartman@govexec.com.

Here’s the position description:

Legal issues with privacy in social media stem from the nature of social media – an inherently communicative and open medium. The cliché is that in social media there is no expectation of privacy because the very idea of privacy is inconsistent with a “social” medium. Scott McNealy from Sun Microsystems famously drove home the point with his aphorism of “You already have zero privacy. Get over it.”