connecting*the*dots

HearUsNow.org just released a fantastic cartoon/music video to raise awareness about media deregulation and consolidation, which reminded me of a post I dropped inn 2003, a few months after the Iraqi War began, entitled, “Art Prophesying Reality?”

Back then, society (people at parties, the media, popular culture, etc.) seemed more than willing to pigeonhole bloggers as everything from self-indulgent to narcissistic to mindless to geeks. That didn’t slow down the revolution, as many early adopters knew that there was a huge opportunity for blogging to change the way humans communicated between, and learned from one another. There was just no way we could’ve possibly imagined how this ecosystem would come together.

Recently, services such as Technorati, Bloglines, and IceRocket began to make blogs more accessible, with Google Blog Search adding eyeballs and Yahoo! News topping that by presenting blogs at the same level as the MSM as a result of a news query. The blogging ecosystem has finally become more mainstream, extending the reach of blogs beyond the world of early adopters, and providing useful and usable transparency into the mechanics of the inter-connectivity of the muck and mire of human knowledge.

The MSM “Tower of Consolidation” really does have something to worry about, as their ivory tower world is beginning to crumble down around them — whther they want to recognize it or not.

(via Joho the Blog)

UPDATE: It looks like Fox is now trying to force bogus opinion into their local news broadcasts.