I have been asked to come up with names of speakers that would be excellent for presentations on the future of the media industry. At this point I can suggest people from the top of the line, then we’ll have to be more realistic regarding price and availability when we have our list of dream presenters.
I left out Steve Jobs because I guess he is totally and utterly out of reach… But I have suggested Chris Anderson, Cory Doctorow, Seth Godin, Joi Ito and Guy Kawasaki. And I am absolutely sure that I have left out huge amounts of interesting people.
Comments are open. What is your dream presenter for the subject of new media. And why?
eirikso 
What about Mike Davidson – the founder of Newsvine? Or Adrian Holovaty? Or Ryan Carson?
What about the creators of Virb – the MySpace killer (Contact info)
Yochai Benkler (benkler.org)
Tim O’Reilly
Jeff Jarvis if you are looking for a newspaper angle.
Thanks! Good suggestions indeed.
…and I think Jeff Jarvis would be able to talk about a lot more than newspapers. And by the way, what’s the difference? Newspaper, television, radio, magazines. On the internet it seems like we’re all the same.
I work for Guy Kawasaki. Thanks for including Guy in your top 5 dream presenters!
Mary-Louise
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/
He has both an interesting message and some very nice thoughts on the basics of presenting. Keep up the good work.
Shelly Palmer? Bruce Sterling?
Guy Kawasaki and Steve Jobs …
When they are on the stage, you can always feel their passion … And when they are off, they leave an impact on you …
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I would add Peter Cochrane(ConceptLabs) to the list.
Here’s a good presentation from 2006:
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail978.html
Thanks! And I see that I have forgot two interesting persons: Bill Joy and Ray Kurzweil.
I have heard one of Ray Kurzweil’s “mad professor-ish” presentations. Very interesting person!
…and a blogger that I have followed for years that writes very interesting about media centers, music, photography and Web 2.0. Thomas Hawk. Don’t know if he’s doing presentations though.
“Ze Frank”:http://www.zefrank.com/ is good
Adam Brucker of Criterion Advisors (http://www.Criterion-Advisors.com) and The BadSlacks Method (http://www.BadSlacks.com) would be a great choice as well. Saw him speak last year and he was great.
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