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Yesterday, at the much talked about iWantMedia panel on the future of the media, Gawker Media founder visionary Nick Denton said that a third of Gawker Media posts have a video element.*Gawker blogs don't publish much in the way of original videos, the videos are embeds from other sources and videos culled from a rack of DVR's which monitor a number of cable channels, nonetheless, for us over at Beet.TV, this extraordinary degree of video integration into news reporting and blogging. It's a big deal, very exciting.After the panel ended, I interviewed David Carr, media columnist for the New York Times about the value of the moving image. He also spoke about the evolution of blogging as serious reporting.Andy Plesser, Executive Producer*You can watch Nick's comments on this continuous stream of yesterday's one hour session.

Caught up with Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist immediately after his panel organized by iWantMedia today in Manhattan. He told me that while his company has had "an effect on newspapers," the notion that it has killed newspapers is "urban legend."New York Times media columnist David Carr was on hand at the event. After I spoke with Newmark, I asked David if Craig killed newspapers. He said the list shot the backend of newspapers" but didn't blame him.If you haven't watched one-hour the panel, check it out. Great to watch Nick Denton and Wall Street Journal Deputy Managing Editor Allan Murray go at. Great. This was shot at the NYU TV studio and streamed via Livestream. It is running in a realtime loop here.Congratulations to Patrick Phillips, founder of iWantMedia for putting together such a superb program and doing such an ace job at moderating.Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

New York Times columnist David Carr reads from and discusses The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own. In his book, Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular columnist for The New York Times. Built on sixty videotaped interviews, legal and medical records, and three years of reporting, The Night of the Gun is a ferocious tale that uses the tools of journalism to fact-check the past. Carr s investigation of his own history reveals that his odyssey through addiction, recovery, cancer, and life as a single parent was far more harrowing-and, in the end, more miraculous-than he allowed himself to remember. ($26.00) Simon and Schuster ISBN #1-41654-152-7. You can visit David Carr s official web site as well. author podcasts, books, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts, literature, arts, The Night of the Gun, David Carr