The Web in 2012

Posted on September 16, 2007 by Himanshu Sharma

A panel on the future of commerce, journalism, and community on the Internet, featuring Barry Diller (fox/e-commerce), Arianna Huffington, and Craig Newmark (social media/Craigslist) from the 2007 New Yorker Conference. In a closer look at this webcast it was interesting to see the differing perspectives of Barry Diller and Craig Newmark. Diller argues that professional media practitioners will in the future be taking up a more significant role in the user-generated domain. A viewpoint that has some connections with Andrew Keen’s recent book ‘The Cult of the Amateur: How today’s Internet is killing our culture’.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3044327650346826559

About Barry Diller:
Barry Diller is an American media executive responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company. In the hip, young world of Internet start-ups, media mogul Barry Diller, owner of the Home Shoppingand USA Networks, the Sci-Fi Channel and Ticketmaster, is sometimes regarded as an interloper. But Diller’s innovative spirit, which helped invent thetelevision miniseries and launched the brash young Fox Television Network when no one thought a fourth network was possible, is now hard at work integrating old and new media into a commerce empire.

About Arianna Huffington:
Arianna Huffington is an author and nationally syndicated columnist in the United States. Huffington describes herself as a “former right-winger who has evolved into a compassionate and progressive populist”. She is the founder of The Huffington Post, an online news and commentary website and aggregated blog. Her latest book is On Becoming Fearless… in Love, Work, and Life.

About Craig Newmark:
Craig Alexander Newmark is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based website Craigslist. Newmark attended Morristown High School. Upon graduation he attended college at Case Western Reserve University. Newmark is a vocal advocate of keeping the Internet free. He has donated $10,000 to a non-profit group, NewAssignment.Net, which plans to combine the work of amateurs and professionals to produce investigative stories on the Internet. Newmark resides in San Francisco’s Cole Valley and is active at craigslist in customer service, mostly dealing with spammers and scammers.