Readings

In describing the media companies' fears, it seems those are all actually benefits for the content creators (like us:)
1. Converging media puts the "opportunity" for revenue back into the open hands of the masses.
2. The creative anxiety seems beneficial for the greater good, since the quality expectations and competition for revenue can only catapult the standards of content design and fertile thought.
3. This paradigm shift of control over community and capitalism creates an interesting and "liberating" uncertainty.

In the book excerpt, it was a little hard for me to follow the theoretical commentary on the two narrative shows, since I had never seen either.

I think the Steve Jobs' description was great - [the difference between tv and the web as the difference between lean-back and sit-forward media.]

Also, it's interesting how in both chapters, he refers to the theme of cognitive evolution that is occuring in this digital age with social mapping likened to physical mapping...and later how in the realm of the internet - "probing is a powerful form of intellectual activity."