where old media meets new

I hope that we will see, in the next few years, some much more ambitious experiments about how content gets created and shared in a group of people in an effective way.

I suspect that it won't be two things. I think that it won't be simply practices and standards that were created in formerly physical media applied to online stuff. [...]

But I also don't think it will be another thing [...] like YouTube, where you have masses of people creating content, sharing it, and sort of bubbling up the hot stuff. I think that those sorts of things are very much an artifact of simply not having been able to do that before, that the thrill is going to wear off that in a fairly short period of time. I think that we are seeing that, in fact, large numbers of people doing bits of content don't always actually lead to very good content, and that there is some model in there which is a sweet spot as yet uncreated, where the curatorial excellence of old media meets the freedom and versatility of new media, and we have a whole new form born.

-- Alex Steffen, Sharing Solutions: An Interview with Alex Steffen of WorldChanging (NetSquared)