It probably came through to some of you, folks, as a shock, but it looks like Dave Winer will stop his weblogging efforts with Scripting News before the end of this year. At least, that is what he has just……

“Is this the end of the broadcast world and the start of the blogcast world?”

You are absolutely right, Andy. We are at the breaking point where sharing content and knowledge is no longer going to be restricted to text and hyperlinks. Now we enter a new era; a multimedia era where not only written text but also sound and video will become more and more popular and with the help of already well known portable media players it will become pervasive enough as well to make it all stick together in a much richer environment than ever before. Indeed, we are now at the beginning of a new blogcast world where end-users are always in control of the media and not vice versa.