Social media is captivating the world. And, according to this article in the SF Chronicle, it is changing how news is delivered in a big way - the readers are participating and pushing the most interesting things to the top by way of sites like Digg , Del.icio.us and the hundreds of thousands of blogs (more?) and other social media sites.
I have not been a traditional print media (newspaper, newsletters, magazine) person for some time (although I do get some great publications from the California Bar Association...oh, and I subscribe to Real Simple for my true down time moments.) I get most of my news online. It started with reading the Merc online rather than bothering with a paper that I would have to pry from my children's gummy hands and then recycle (all that paper, all those trees!). But now it has risen to a new level with these user-news sites. I am digging daily. My del.icio.us is truly that. I partcipate in a collaborative blogging site, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, that keep me better informed about a wide variety of issues. Social media doesn't keep you in one place - it sends you away (something Google has made famous). Because it is more interactive, do I think about the news more? Am I more involved in the world? I think so.
