Thank you for your thoughtful reply. Content no longer takes a linear path from creation to consumption – what we think of as the tradition media model. Instead, the hard lines that existed between publication and consumption have blurred, with everyone playing both roles simultaneous. The resulting flood of content has brought it own share of challenges. As you point out, it has also clearly had an impact on the commercial structure of traditional content based markets like the news industry.

This is an area I definitely plan on exploring here in more depth. I appreciate you taking the time to read this blog and share your thoughts.

-john

So when you blog (via any WordPress blog), Ping.fm can take your content and spread it around to 30 different sites, including Twitter, and the rest.

As these social sites have to be joined and subscribed/friended, this doesn’t take the Main Stream media “broadcast” model – because you have to give worth to get subscribers. But it does change the model substantially. (As if newspapers and magazines weren’t already seeing their model change…)

Where social aggregators have become more and more common place after the success of Friendfeed, it’s just a matter of time before they also become social syndicators so that all your content is available through the bulk of your social networks.

And these three probably are due for a review on as a subject of their own.