A veteran of covering the often difficult to negotiate perennial new media conventions offers tips for journalists thrown into covering technology shows like Comdex. In 1998 OJR heralded the Golden Age of Web Freelancing by detailing writing opportunities at 14 top sites whose world view promised to overthrow the old order and give freelance journalists their proper due as masters of the universe. It's bright, colorful and slickly packaged. Now only if it had a soul. As officials prepared to declare victory over Y2K Bug on New Year's Eve, the Web hummed with reports and speculation.
Conspiracy theories abound.
The View from the Top Terry Anzur deconstructs AOL Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin's recent address on media convergence.