Reader, publisher role blurring – Wikipedia founder

In a recent interview with Mail & Guardian Online publisher Matthew Buckland, Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, said that the role between readers and publishers is blurring with the advent of the Internet and will result in a hybrid model, “where traditional news organisations start to see community participation as a huge positive thing for them”. Wales also believes that editorial opinion pages are facing competition from bloggers. Read Buckland’s blog posting here and the official M&G Online interview here.