So the Dalai Lama has a Twitter account. A Wikipedia entry on a breaking story is sometimes updated faster than BBC. An employee in the backroom of a restaurant can create a viral video with a cheap camera to land the company on the front page of the New York Times. To say that we are in the middle of a huge media maelstrom is almost a cliché. Information is coming at us from all directions, but most noticeably from the bottom up.
As an information consumer, I get my news from both dead trees (newspapers) and agitated electrons (networks). I don’t favor one over another. We tend to trust information that comes directly from neurons (people), but we filter it through algorithms (search engines). Depending on your perspective we are either in the eye of the storm, or at a fork in the road. I like to think it is the latter. blink.lk, to me is that road not taken.
As a contributor to blink.lk, I am glad to be part of this journey, where knowledge doesn't come via a press release but a blog post; where news is no longer a lecture but a conversation.
Written by Angelo Fernando, a writer and communications professional based in Arizona, USA. He contributes to several print and online publications. Find him at his blog at HoipolloiReport.com
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