Have Blogs reached the Tipping point?

Last week saw the WE Media Global Forum in London Hosted by Reuters and the BBC. The forum put the spotlight on trust in the media and citizen journalism, in an era of 24-hour news. When anyone with a mobile phone can take a photograph that makes it on to our screens and newspapers, the lines between those who report the news and those who read it are becoming blurred.

This report from the BBC website focussed specifically on the rise of citizen journalism and blogging. The internet, enabled by a rapid switch to broadband, has recently reached a tipping point in its evolutionary path. It has moved, relatively quickly, from a predominantly one-way, read-only medium to a more two-way, participatory, collaborative and interconnected medium. Read more...