“It is an unsettling time to be a journalist. You are either on the edge of extinction or in charge of the universe . . . Access to the Internet gives the generations living today the choice to be the best-informed, or the worst-informed, human beings in history – but we will never be able to claim that we were the least-informed. Celebrity, slime and crude polemics pour from the electronic faucets as easily as high-minded exegeses.” Jim Hoagland, WashingtonPost.com, March 2, 2008

There is a certainly duality to the fabric holding together what we tend to call the “digital media.” One fundamental reality is that pretty much all media are digital now, at least for most of their lifecycle. This includes even magazines and newspapers which earn increasing portions of their revenues and readership from digital versions of their products.