OneSpot SXSW 2010 Panel Voting - Newspapers vs. Content Aggregators: Fight Night!

August 19 2009, 7:00am

As voting for panels continue, we’ll focus on one of our panels every day. Today, it’s a technology and content panel: Newspapers vs. Content Aggregators: Fight Night! (You know you want to see what goes down between big media and aggregators!)

Panel Description

In the red corner, boasting over 200 years of experience and $38 Billion yearly revenue: the newspaper industry. In the blue corner, the rookie packing a major punch: the content aggregator. Called the “tech tapeworms” of the Internet, content aggregators have become the frienemies of newspapers. Round 1… Fight!

Possible Panelists

Matt Cohen, CEO of OneSpot

Guy Kawasaki – Alltop

    Tony Conrad – CEO, Sphere

Senior Representative – Newscorp

Senior Representative – NYTimes

Senior Representative – Google (the “original tech tapeworm”)

Questions this panel will answer

   1. What is “content aggregation”? 
   2. Why do newspapers dislike content aggregators? 
   3. Why do newspapers need content aggregators? 
   4. Do content aggregators need newspapers to survive? 
   5. Fair use: what constitutes as just ‘linking to’ versus ‘parasitic’ infringement? 
   6. What does the new symbiotic business model look like? 
   7. Who should be paying who: content aggregators for content or newspapers for offsite promotion? 
   8. How does content aggregation help large and small publishers tap into the long tail? 
   9. What does the NYT and Blogrunner relationship look like pre- and post-acquisition? 
  10. Why can’t we all just get along?

VOTE FOR THIS PANEL

We are so excited to plan this panel and the other 6 we have submitted. We hope you like them enough to vote and attend! Voting ends September 4th!

See you at SXSW 2010 and thanks for your support!