Dan Gilmor, a journalist who also keeps a web log, says that the next wave of journalism, which we may already be in the middle of, will revolve around four basic principles:

1. My readers know more than I do;
2. That is not a threat, but rather an opportunity;
3. We can use this together to create something between a seminar and a conversation, educating all of us;
4. Interactivity and communications technology -- in the form of e-mail, weblogs, discussion boards, websites and more -- make it happen.