Participatory news

Mark Glaser's column, The Media Company I Want to Work For, is spoken out of frustration at the current structure of media companies, but I believe it gives us a glance at what's to come in the world of journalism.

Open Source Journalism, Citizen's Journalism, Participatory News are buzzphrases that are starting to be bandied about, and there's some interesting early steps to formally organize, but the concept is very simple. When everyone has a digital camera, a wireless net connection, a platform from which to speak and to be heard - then everyone becomes 'the media'.

The next Woodward & Bernstein are not working in the copy room at the Daily Bugle - they're working beside you in your place of business, writing about what they know, pulling together and piecing facts from the thousands of sources available to them from a Google search and from the journals of millions who also write what they know and piece together what they find.