I'm off to Gainesville, Florida, tomorrow morning (taking BART to SFO Airport at 4:14 am -- ugh) for three days, so won't be checking email and will only sporadically update this blog. Here's the event:

The Third Annual Symposium on Converged Journalism at the University of Florida.

Conference details (Flash required).

When: Thursday, April 1, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: Reitz Union Auditorium/Cinema, 2nd floor, University of Florida campus, Gainesville, FL

What: Meet and mingle with working journalists from a variety of professional backgrounds and hear what they have to say about the world of online journalism today. Students and others are encouraged to talk one-on-one with these professionals and to ask questions in a public forum.

Cost: Free. Everyone is welcome, and you can come and go at any time during the day.

Panels:
9 - 10 a.m.: How Broadcast, Online and Print Journalists Work Together
10:30 a.m. - Noon: Photojournalism in a War Zone
2 - 3 p.m.: Blogging and Journalism
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.: Entertainment Journalism

I'll be moderating the panel on blogging and journalism. Panelists are Sheila Lennon of projo.com, Kevin Roderick of LA Observed and Jennifer Balderama of the Washington Post.

You can see bios of each speaker here (PDF).

Elizabeth Spiers and Dirck Halstead, publisher of The Digital Journalist photojournalism magazine, will also be speaking, I'll be assessing students' resumes with Mark Glaser, and Dave Winer and Buzz Bruggemann (who's driving down from Orlando) will be in the audience. Sounds like fun.

Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, sent this announcement on Friday:

The Live music archive just received its 10,000th concert recording! Congratulations and thanks to the etree community and the artists and bands that have a made this a fantastic repository of creative works.

A few stats:

Now stored: 10,000 shows, 150,000 tracks, from almost 500 bands, in 18 months. About 10 Terabytes of information on 40 Terabytes of disk space on 60 linux boxes.

Almost 1,000 uploaders, 300 uploaders have uploaded more than 10 shows ...

Usage: about 1`Petabyte of concerts have been downloaded (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes). Or about 1 Million shows.

Currently 400megabits/sec of outbound bandwidth.

In the next couple of weeks:

- Adding some Grateful Dead concerts because their policy allows
non-commercial hosting.

- Converting most of the concerts to mp3/ogg and full concert zip files

Longer term wish list:
- Broaden the collection into lots of different types of music
- Internet Radio interface
- Improved website by searching, speed, browsing

New from MediaChannel.org:

CBS News Chief Sees Opinion Rise Above Fact-Based Reporting. Bias in the news media isn't the problem, says CBS News President Andrew Heyward. So what is? "First, opinion has begun to drive out fact-based reporting -- especially on cable television. ... Second, television never did nuance well in the first place -- and nuance is also being driven out." (

Richard Clarke and the Media Failures of 9-11. As Richard Clarke points to intelligence failures and apologizes to 9-11 families for the government's inability to prevent the attack, who was going to raise the issue of the media's failure to discuss these issues in detail before this past week?

Dan Rosenbaum has the skinny on worst Time Inc.'s plan to launch a newsstand magazine -- exclusively distributed through Wal-Marts -- called All You. Here's the NY Times on the new rag, er, mag.

K. Paul Mallasch has launched a new community site called Wars and Rumors of Wars. kpaul's using Scoop and says he wants "to try to grow another site that will generate content on its own and be easy to manage." Looks good so far.

Finance expert Andrew Tobias -- who also happens to be treasurer of the Democratic National Committee -- quotes from
my review of Trackle on Sunday.

Not to be missed: John Battelle on Why Topix Is Different: Toward A Sustainable Model For Net Media Companies.

Mary Hodder at Napsterization: Why News and Technical DRM Don't Mix.

Google has a personalized search engine in beta. But I'm not crazy about the profile choices. I'm not interested in baseball, I'm interested one baseball team. It's still early, though, and they'll figure it out.

John Battelle offers his analysis here.