1. People. Board, consultants, employees are passionate about the turnaround. “people at AOL are playing to win.

2. Predicts a massive platform battle in Silicon Valley. Content is the new glue that holds the Internet together.

3. “it’s time for the Internet to get programmed”

4. Brands matter a lot so the content future won’t be Mom & Pop

5. Content Platforms can be good or bad. Does not see AOL as a “content farm”

6. AOL will develop content that looks different

7. Great strategy a la Tom Brady, “throw it to the open guy”

8. Would AOL buy Yahoo? Doesn’t sound like it

Aspen, CO — “in between oil spills, we do air and water pollution” joked EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson as she was interviewed by Aspen Institute Director, Walter Issacson at the Fortune Magazine Brainstorm Tech Conference.

Jackson also declared the Clean Air Act a tremendous success but warned that the nation’s air remains dangerous and toxic on many places across the country.

Aspen, CO– at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech Conference, Jim Breyer, one of the deans of Sand Hill Road ( Accell Partners ) believes that large established media companies have exactly “zero” chance of diverging with their digital initiatives. He specifically mentions NewsCorp, Disney, Time Warner .

Aspen, CO — Making people pay for websites generates fewer users but far higher quality users. So says Jon Miller of NewsCorp at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech Conference.

Miller sees content consumption moving to tablets not just from printed news but also from the standard browser. For media companies tablets are a whole new channel with it’s own user dynamics and business models.

Weird stuff. Google dominates the industry but I feel like I'm watching a juke & jive show.
YouTube "on the brink of imminent profitability.
Now turning into a brilliant PR seminar on how not to answer a reporter's legitimate questions. Now it's funny.

Aspen, CO — Fortune Brainstorm Tech

Barry Diller made an impassioned plea to the nation’s technology leaders to join the fight for net neutrality. Speaking at the Fortune Magazine Brainstorm Tech Conference at the Aspen Institute, Diller, CEO of Interactive Corporation (IAC) took on the big telco’s desire to control the gateways to the Internet.

Interviewed by Fortune Managing Editor, Andy Serwer Diller went on to declare his “love” for the iPad. He added that he did not love his iPad as much as his dog.

Diller believes that over time, the pay wall concept currently deployed by The New York Times will work. Media companies should be experimenting with all platforms and pay models. Diller also took on google over it’s market share.

Finally, answering a question about TV, he believes that broadcast media will begin to be available on a paid basis.

Aspen, CO, BrainstormTech: Brian McAndrews and Wes Nichols declare the concept of online engagement is only an intermediate metric and does not relate to sales data.

Friday July 22– Fortune Brainstorm Tech, @ The Aspen Institute

At the branding panel with Wes Nichols, (Marketshare Partners), Tom Bedecarre (AKQA), Brian McAndrews, (now a VC) Barry Saltzman (Google)

Room full of investors, agency CEOs, analysts all agreeing that social media will be the engine that finally moves big media dollars online.

My admonition to the radio industry to get off its butt @ Radio Ink Convergence Summit last night: http://ht.ly/1UbYT

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