L.A.’s the Digital Place:
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Northern California may have Silicon Valley, but Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan is determined to ensure that the Southland has its share of the new-media industry and becomes known as the “Digital Epicenter.”
Riordan last week announced the formation of a Los Angeles New Media Roundtable, which will focus on defining, supporting and promoting the new-media industry here. “Wiring Los Angeles and creating world-class technology infrastructure will be as important to the future as building roads and fixing potholes,” the mayor said.
Riordan will serve as founding chairman of the new round-table. Other founders include Earthlink Network’s Sky Dayton, Entertainment Asylum’s Scott Zakarin, Disney Online’s Jake Winebaum, IdeaLab’s Jordan Posell and Jim Jonassen, founder of LawNMoweR, a new-media networking group.
Jonassen said the group will hold its inaugural meeting in September.
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