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Newspapers are using crappy design and are full of ads. River of News will "get around" this.

Will we be getting our news on devices like what the phones and PDAs of today look like? Probably not. iPhone? NO! It is closed and locked down. UI improvements will push things along as far as design.

There isn't a white box cell phone. You can't install Linux on a phone. Unholy alliance between makers and carriers. The carriers don't want open systems. Equipment makers depend.

Doc's story of Rave Wireless: start-up that made money from day 1 and answer questions with "we researched that and this is what we found." Universities used to sell phone services to kids in dorms and make lots of money. Get universities back into this business by letting universities sell cell phones to students that are better deals than what they can get on the open market. Tie into Blackboard, parking, registrar, etc. 15 campuses rolled out this fall. Nokia or whomever make a phone for them and accomodate it "white box." Students can add value by writing programs for the phone. "Entourage" feature - send assignments to your friends. Sell memberships to "marketplace" - pizza places, laundromats, etc. to make money. Ask pizza places "do you have room for 12 to eat?" and get a text message back about it.

What happens to those kids who graduate? Alumni services!

Will short text RSS feeds change how people consume news?

People read on news on PDAs. Everyone loved Craig Smith's Sony portable device.

University posts lectures through iTunes - [http://www.apple.com/education/products/ipod/itunes_u.html] iTunesU.

Do people listen to Podcasts? Pew says 29% of the 11% of mp3/ipod users have listened to a podcast.

Advertisers are willing to pay more for print than online.

Text versus audio.

Mobile photos. GPS isn't turned on. This will change a lot of things, says Dan Gillmor. Massaging data has community value.

GPS devices that track information - could be the killer app. Katy bragged about her GPS.

Europeans are building things in the system that US is not.

Peter asks - when are "normal" people going to use this stuff?

Katrina says how have other things been adopted? Predictions are less about use/application and more about older strategies.

Ron suggested that we watch Epic movie - news in 2007.