I’ve been talking about the next version of journalism for a while now. Card-carrying conservative John Podhoretz gets it in his column about Trent Lott.
Tomorrow’s journalism is multi-directional. We are all writers (if we want to be), not just readers. Substitute “producers” for “writers” in that last sentence to include multimedia. The point is: We aren’t just consumers anymore.
Gerhard Fisher also gets it in this piece on FirstMonday, entitled “Beyond ‘Couch Potatoes’: From Consumers to Designers and Active Contributors” — it’s fascinating reading.