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.