IMO a question all blogs and media sites need to ask is kind of like: "Am I creating a community or a television channel?" I grew up on the web, and the multi-

IMO a question all blogs and media sites need to ask is kind of like: "Am I creating a community or a television channel?" I grew up on the web, and the multi-directionality of it as a medium (including blog comments) has set my standards for the way I want to consume information (and interact with it). I don't trust information flowing to me that can't be annotated, corrected, and augmented by the wisdom of the crowd it's reaching. It's Reuters' perogative to do this, but I think it just makes Reuters.com exactly like Reuters TV, it gives them a lot more control, but they're leaving a lot of opportunity on the table. That's usually what I expect from $30b companies though. I look forward to having plenty of interactive communities to learn the same stuff on for the rest of humanity, even if Reuters is no longer one of them.