Technology feeds grassroots media
By Dan Gillmor, BBC News
It is not an impact on the epic scale of an asteroid smashing into the Earth and killing off the dinosaurs, but the collision of technology and media is having profound effects on a more modern ecosystem.
Media are becoming democratised, and a global conversation is emerging.
The tools of production - used to create digital content such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, discussions, multiplayer games, mashups (I’ll describe each of those in more detail below) - are increasingly powerful and easy to use, yet decreasingly expensive.