Participatory Journalism
J.D. Lasica has written a three-part series on participatory journalism. He put a lot of emphasis on video netcasting, which I think has a lot of years to go before it's actually important in any sense due to the slow growth of broadband in the U.S., but overall it's a good analysis of trends in interactivity.
Luckilly, there are places outside the US where the brodband access is pretty good. My ISP offers me an asymetric bandwidth of 2.2M/384k for 29.99 euros ($33.99). France is not a bad place to live IMHO.