Seamus McCauley On Openness

The idea - the myth - of an open web to which anyone can contribute seems hugely compelling for many people.

Yet the reality seems to be that the new media is practically no more participative than the old: it remains that there were more major contributors to the 1911 Britannica than there are to Wikipedia and the front page of Digg is controlled by fewer people than the front page of the New York Times.