I'm at the Ad Tech conference in New York. It's nominally about digital advertising. Of course politics has been all over the presentations. It was really fun watching the guy on one panel talk about what a good job the McCain campaign has done using digital marketing. That got a rather cool reception from the other panelists and most of the audience.

Betsy Morgan, CEO, The Huffington Post is on a panel speaking now - droning on and on about HuffPo's obsession with Sarah Palin.

She is certain that today is Sarah's last day, except maybe coming back on a talk show or two some day.

Her entire presentation under the heading "Content is King" is all about their intense focus on Sarah Palin. She even went so far to claim that withing the Sarah Palin Community on HuffPo there are actually some Palin supporters and some who are "not quite as suportive."

It's really kind of sad.

UPDATE: On a somewhat related note, this morning's key note was from Jonathan Klein President CNN/USA who let the audience know that his network is not as left wing as MSNBC. I guess that could be described as accurate until he used it as a springboard to to describe CNN as the neutral middle between MSNBC on the left and Fox on the right.

Afternoon session has begun the topic today is TV. Since everything has a number it's about TV 3.0. So far the only observation I have is that the mic is too damn loud.

TV 3.0 in case you're wondering is TV 1.0 + Web 2.0.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 12:21 PM | No Comments | Add Comment