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7.20.09 *The media landscape that we knew, as familiar as it was... that professionals broadcast messages to amateurs is increasingly slipping away. *We are increasingly in a landscape where media is global, social, ubiquitous, and cheap. *...a world of media where the former audience are now increasingly full participants. *...media is less and less about crafting a single message to be consumed by individuals and is more and more often a way of creating an environment for convening and supporting groups. *The really crazy change...the fact that people are no longer disconnected from each other. *The size of the network, the complexity of the network is actually the square of the number of participants. *As recently as last decade, most of the media available for public consumption was produced by professionals. Those days are over, never to return. *They [barackobama.com] had understood that their role with MyBO.com was to convene the supporters, but not to control their supporters.

What is truer than truth? Answer, the story.

I've added quotes and the poem He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven to this post.

"The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."