El futuro de las noticias en linea

Este fin de semana pasado se realizó la conferencia 2003 de la Online News Association en Chicago.
Muchos de los pesos pesados de las noticias en linea se pusieron a ver hacia el futuro y este fue su pronostico:

"-- Retha Hill, Vice President for Content, BET.com: People will interact with TV in a way they can't now.
-- Dean Wright, Vice President and Editor in Chief, MSNBC.com: More visual, with more video.
-- Esther Dyson, Chairman, Edventure Holdings Inc.: My newsletter will be a blog.
-- Ruth Gersh, Editorial Director, AP Digital: Print will no longer drive the AP. AP will create things in the order they need to be filed.
-- Leonard Apcar, Editor in Chief, The New York Times on the Web: We will not be wedded to the newspaper as the central core of The New York Times.
-- Mitch Gelman, Senior Vice President and Executive Producer of CNN.com: We'll have more on-demand access to video, via TiVo and the Web, and thus more choice.
-- Richard Deverell, Head of News Interactive, BBC News: We'll have more intelligent engagement with our audiences, and a broader diversity of the devices delivering news.

Here are the one-liners they ended the panel with:

Deverell: "2004 will be the year video takes off."
Gelman: "We're going to look to the audience for the direction we're going to follow..."
"Mitch! How could you say that?" quipped Apcar.
But Mitch wasn't finished. "...and, of course, to The New York Times." Hilarity ensued.
Apcar: "The home page will become less important than it is today."
Gersh: "The Nigerian e-mail will turn out to be true." More hilarity.
Esther Dyson: "Down with news nuggets."
Retha Hill: "Down with blogs."
Dean Wright: "An online journalist will win a Pulitzer."

Como ven el bom del mundo de los blogs es visto con admiración o recelo...
Hoy el The New York Times publica algo sobre eso, y es como dice Andrew Sullivan, "la revolución va a ser transmitida blogueada"...