The BBC “Creative Future” strategy “attempts to wrestle with questions” about what the development will mean for the BBC. The last couple of years he has seen a shift inside the BBC from anxiety on top of list of reactions to a recognition that this unfolding world will give them a better chance to fulfill their goals than the old order. A lot of what the BBC should do will translate easily into this world.

Relevance, responsiveness, a broader debate as important for users as the values of accuracy, authority in journalism.

The second wave will be disruptive, “many parts of official media arent going to make it,” he said.

Thompson challenged old ideas about the digital divide. In Africa you can find people who have to walk miles for water, but they still have mobile phones.

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The last one not to follow Spitzer’s rule is a media professor with a night job as communications adviser. It’s always fun to read an e-mail which says “confidential”. The memo (pdf, in Norw.) itself contains a fair amount of good analysis. The outrageous part is of course that the researcher played neutral expert at the same time as advising one of the parties.