The first thing you notice about this website screen-grab above is that it's not really distinguishable from a TV channel. For all practical purposes, it is a TV channel. You look at a screen and you watch it. Of course, in many ways, a web-based "TV" channel is better than traditional TV, since one can watch it on a computer, or on a PDA--or even, with a little software and a cable, back on your TV. And of course, because it's a net-based system, it's much more interactive and flexible.
As the headline on the post, from the lefty site OurFuture.com, says, "AJ from FireDogLake.com talks about the FireDogStory from single blogger to business operation, and what that means for the future of the netroots." In other words, there's plenty of lefty politics on FDL, but there's also plenty of business.
Note AJ talking biz-speak about "horizontal integration," "maximize advertising revenue," and "rolling up" smaller blogs--into a big blog, a blog of blogs. And out of that rolling up will come the Next Net Thing--the next network.
Convergence. It's real, and it's coming. And from what TCG can see, the Left is Converging faster. Today, the "Netroots" might just seem like a buncha bloggers, but they are comin' atya with network-like power.
