Changing times
We've finally gotten to the point at which the idea of “professional” fact-filtering no longer makes sense. Adam Liptak noted yesterday in the Times that blogging culture may be undermining the idea that reporters are specially privileged. Lawrence, Kansas, is now the home of an all-community online paper — the Newspaper of the Future.
Meanwhile, Yahoo! is launching a “social” search engine that allows you to cooperate with people you know in pinning down information you — and they — care about. David Weinberger dreams about collaboratively filtering news. Dreamcard (from Runtime Revolution) lets people who can't code write software that brings objects alive.
If we can just stay insatiably curious for a few more years (long enough to get past the bumpy parts and get to the point where real tools work really well and really simply) the pros will become amateurs, the amateurs will become pros, and we'll all be handling information much more effectively. Just a few more years to go.
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Are you implying that the profession of journalism is becoming irrelevant?