Klein News Camp 2024 Kriston Jae Bethel

A few lessons from the 15th annual Klein News Innovation Camp

We were back. Audience was great, I enjoyed my lunchtime keynote interview with Wired editor Steven Levy.

Below are a few notes from the daylong unconference on the future of news for my own memory.

  • “I can promise you that the AI intermediation of email is coming” Aram Zucker-Sharff
  • It’s time for Technical.ly to have a stance on decentralized social media: Mastadon most purely, Bluesky does its own hosting; Threads wants to get there
  • Jack Dorsey: Twitter should have been a protocol not a platform
  • The fediverse is a decentralized network of independent social media servers that are connected by a common protocol: Mastadon prominently a part, but others can tag in
  • Bluesky can subscribe with different algorithms
  • First Twitter CTO wanted Twitter to be decentralized but Ev Williams overruled
  • Nostr is an alternative protocol , many microblogging uses (Aram feels right now too many Bitcoin boosters, so maybe the protocol is cool but community isnt, in his estimation)
  • Jack Dorsey didn’t like Bluesky’s moderation so started to back Noster project
  • “I do not believe the internet will be as stable in the future as it was in the past” Aram
  • Indie web: publish on your site, syndicate everywhere else (POSE)
  • Our journalism and software are “crisis disciplines”: Aram
  • Technical.ly is splitting our AI strategy into three: news-gathering, editorial creation and story distribution. Our policies will follow those lines
  • Freedom of speech vs freedom of reach
  • My AI steps: Play with the SEO thing to draft items that can support our sales marketing funnel (if it still scares the newsroom); Play with RAG concept discussing my business
Photo of Chris Wink and Steven Levy, photo by Danya Henninger
Photo of Chris Wink and Steven Levy, photo by Danya Henninger
TVs with Klein Camp logo above Chris Wink interviewing Steven Levy, Photo by Roberto Torres

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