« The era of mass media is giving way to one of personal and participatory media »
« Just as everybody has an e-mail account today, everybody will have a blog in five years »
« Journalism won’t be a sermon any more, it will be a conversation. »
« Podcasting will change radio, not kill it »
« Somebody who reads Wikipedia is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom: it may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him. » (Esta barbaridade é dita por um ex-editor da Enciclopédia Britânica!)
A edição impressa do Economist da próxima semana traz um dossier sobre os novos media, e dedica especial atenção aos blogs. A primeira parte pode ser lida aqui, o restante exige registo pago no site.
Também à borla, os podcasts das entrevistas com o director da Technorati e o editor-chefe da Wired, incluídas no dossier, estão aqui e aqui, respectivamente.