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Ann Curry @ #140 Conf: Day 1, Pt. 8 (partial transcript)

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Ann Curry. (@anncurry).

This is absolutely the most anticipated talk of the day – unadulterated Ann Curry, speaking without a script. Many people trickle back into the room from the networking room – some of the first audible cheers from anyone other than me.

(This is a partial transcript; content in quotes is direct from Ann.)

“To me it’s about the rise of empathy, the rise of compassion, which reaffirms in my view our evolution of a species … I believe based on my study of history that we’re evolving to a great, more compassionate, more empathetic people.”

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#140conf: Day 1, Pt. 6 – Social Media is Killing Music [Criticism]

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I took a pass on blogging Ivanka Trump, but I enjoyed her talk. She was real and unscripted in conversation, and clearly is using social media in a first-person way. The high-level message from her talk was mostly transparency and consistency across brands.

Super excited for Chris Weingarten!

Twitter & The Death of Rock Criticism II: Music is Math – Chris Weingarten (@1000timesyes)

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The Church of Gaga

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Communications blog Church of the Customer highlights the five ways Lady Gaga inspires fan loyalty, and they are spot-on.

No matter your sentiment on her music, Gaga’s outreach to fans has been nearly flawless from day one. Note that none of the five points involve buying or selling anything. What makes Gaga’s brand so powerful is she gives away a package of inclusiveness and mythology (not so dissimilar from Tori Amos’s strong success in the 90’s).

You’ve somehow been spared my intense Gaga addiction for the majority of the past year. Suffice to say, I am fully subscribed to her.

News by appointment, or news right now?

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Do you get your news by appointment, or do you get your news whenever you want it?

It’s one of the big questions behind the rise of social media as a news source as well as in the transformation of journalism from pull to push.

Yesterday I encountered a useful real-world example.

In a meeting at work I mentioned I would follow-up on a task Wednesday, and I was met with a collective giggle. Didn’t I know there was another big snow storm coming Tuesday night? It made for a perfect opportunity to lament my not owning a tv and abstaining from local newscasts. Silly me, for eschewing appointment news!

Except, is that why I didn’t know about the storm?

Not really. I went to bed early the night before, and hadn’t checked my Twitter or RSS feeds when I awoke. My phone’s weather widget wasn’t on. Sure enough, when I returned to my desk and checked, all were abuzz.

The news was delivered to me as soon as I engaged my social networks – off-axis from the typical news appointment of 11pm or 6am. Why would I make an appointment to watch television or read a newspaper when I could get the news when it was convenient for me?

In this instance I looked behind. But, did my co-workers know that Representative Murtha had just passed away? That appeared on my feed midday – but they would wait to make a news appointment to hear about it.

Similarly, I’ve heard about hyper-local news midday – like construction accidents on the next block – when co-workers would have had to search the bowels of a network site for the story. Or, wait for their nightly news appointment.

Maybe it’s funny to hear this from a journalism major, but I reject appointment news – local newscasts with watered-down reporting and over-hyped weather are dead to me. I even reject having to visit a news website to look for relevant stories. I’ve stopped making time in my life for that.

If news is relevant to me it will get filtered to me when it’s relevant.

What about you? Do you consume local news differently than you used to? If there was major breaking news affecting your zip code, where would you hear it first?