Be a mad media scientist

Perhaps the best advice someone from old media can give to children of new media is simply to dive in and try out new ideas. In this post from his media blog, Clay Shirky endorses the impulse to experiment. No one knows where journalism is going, but we do know it's not going away. Its reinvention is likely to be wholly unforeseen and, for a while at least, unforeseeable. That creates enormous opportunities for those willing to risk their time and talent in applying the tested and proven modes of the written word with emerging technologies.