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It’s a common argument of media traditionalists that the democracy of social media is actually an ochlocracy (i.e. mob rule.) However, there’s nothing inherent in social media that shapes the ochlocracy; it’s in the way that we find social content.

The government has given the property rights to the recording industry. Although attempting to regain fair use rights is a noble cause, why don’t we ever look at this from the other way and pay off the RIAA to regain these rights? The economics would say that it’s a more realistic goal.

I sat down with Chris Anderson, Wired editor-in-chief, and had a conversation on the material presented in his best-seller The Long Tail, presenting a few sharp criticisms as well as a bit of support.

The biggest problem with tomorrow’s Internet has little to do with improving GUIs or creating more efficient algorithms; it’s in the education and information literacy of today’s parents and tomorrow’s children.

As society separates into smaller and smaller niches, what we currently perceive as pop culture will fade into oblivion. After a small dark age, it’s the renaissance of communication that will be glorious.