Media is dead. So is new media
Heard a GG podcast recently and the question of whether old Media was any different than New Media was raised.
Gillmor kinda said no.
At least it seemed to me that the consensus was that New Media wasn’t the “all changing” entity that geek bloggers have heralded it to be.
Well, maybe that’s kinda true, but for me it’s also kinda off.
Semantics aside, New Media was just a transition from old Media to where we are heading now.
No Media.
Media is dead. It’s been disinterMEDIAted. Pun INTENDED.
What is left is a world without the need for organizational mediation besides the software companies that enable the communication to happen.
But if those companies try to get in the way an alternative will show up to allow the public to do an end around.
What we have is pure conversation in a very clue-trainish manor.
Step aside and allow me to send a classified to the world . . . or release my new music album . . . or whatever I want.
Get out of the way because the train has arrived.