1. The Great Horizontal: when people are connected across to other people as effectively as they are connected "up" to Big Media. #media140

2. Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one, and today almost anyone can own one. We're in a golden age of press freedom. #media140

3. Anyone can doesn't mean everyone will. But the fact that anyone can matters to everyone. And if it doesn't now, wait: it will. #media140

4. The more people who participate in the press the stronger the press can be. But there are many hard problems to solve first. #media140

5. What Rusbridger calls "the mutualization of journalism" http://jr.ly/8t3r is a retirement program for bloggers vs. journalists. #media140

6. When the same network that floods us with too much information works to filter that flood, verification itself begins to scale. #media140

7. Journalists: Instead of crying about Google stealing your news, steal from Google. Start "organizing the world's information." #media140

8. Instead of the readers, the viewers, the listeners or the audience, call them "the users." This helps correct the imagination. #media140