Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.

[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.

The low cost of aggregating information also allowed the formalization of sharing [...].

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.