Look to the future, concentrate on the now

I've always wanted to write a book on multimedia but I haven't for two reasons. 1. I think Dan Gillmor has already done a great job with his book We the Media and 2. Multimedia changes so fast the book would be obsolete by the time it hit the shelves (thus the creation of 10,000 words). Web 2.0 is so yesterday and a new crop of multimedia technologies is cropping up. Read/WriteWeb looks to the future for its "10 Future Web Trends" which include mobile apps and internet TV as well as artificial intelligence (scary!) These may be the next phase of multimedia journalism, but according to a new study magazines (and may I add the majority of media outlets) haven't embraced the current Web 2.0 trends. I get asked a lot why I don't feature current multimedia projects from newspapers, radio stations, etc. but I always respond that journalism is so far behind whats being done on the web that I look elsewhere for inspiration.

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