LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
The Slow
News
Movement
ACH YEAR, THE
Cannes Lions International Festival of
Creativity gathers
thousands of innovative thinkers and practitioners in advertising and media from around the
world to talk about what’s new and
what’s next in our brave new digital world. Last year I spoke about
one of the most exciting developments online: the fact that the Internet has come out of its adolescent stage and is growing up into
a place where our online and our
offline lives have merged — where
the qualities we care most about
offline are increasingly reflected in
our experience online. And where,
among all the random searching
that defined the Internet’s early
years, something new has emerged:
a search for greater meaning.
On Monday, I took the stage
again with Roy Sekoff, HuffPost’s
founding editor and president of
our soon-to-be-launched video
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streaming network, HuffPost Live.
And what was on my mind was the
speed with which the Internet is
heading in this new direction. A
world of too much data, too many
choices, too many possibilities
and too little time is forcing us to
decide what we really value. And,
more and more, people and innovative companies are recognizing
that we actually have a life beyond
our gadgets. That is why one of the
most exciting features of Apple’s
Worldwide Developers Conference
last week was Do Not Disturb, the
new iPhone feature designed to get
you off your iPhone