Up close and participatory

Gosh, doesn't there seem to be a lot of hand-wringing and prognostication these days about the traditional and new media? Reminds me a little of the flurry about "convergence" a couple of years back (don't hear much about that, now).Nevertheless, there are sometimes good sources for the discussion and the Economist is one of those. It has produced a special report that says we are already in an