Stop just trying all kinds of things, says online journalism prof Mindy McAdams. “What works on the Web? YouTube, Craigslist, MySpace, etc. Why? Because we get to do stuff. We can play. We can contribute.”

New media “is changing the world because it is allowing truly egalitarian access to the media for the first time ever,” wrote Lance Duston for a newspaper in Maine. Not because of underlying technology that should be incorporated into newspapers.