We the Media - 2. The Read-Write Web (by Dan Gillmor) - 0 views
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Barbara Lindsey on 29 Sep 08In the past 150 years we've essentially had two distinct means of communication: one-to-many (books, newspapers, radio, and TV) and one-to-one (letters, telegraph, and telephone). The Internet, for the first time, gives us many-to-many and few-to-few communications. This has vast implications for the former audience and for the producers of news because the dif ferences between the two are becoming harder to distinguish.