Over at Blog for gleesos, he writes:

I think what we are seeing is that now the web is being able to be used in a new and exciting way, and it is more the culture of the web that is changing - as apposed to the tools. Yes the tools are needed - but as time goes on the tools will change and update, but the opportunity presented by the web for people to not only have there say but choose to listen to what they think is worth hearing becomes a significant cultural shift.

Go on. Read the whole thing. If you'd like to answer the four questions, be our guest (you need to be logged in for that link to work).

So, here's how it happened.  Our own Jody Mahoney (that's her smiling face right there) emailed Doug Jacquier of CISA to ask him our four questions.  Doug blogged his thoughts which promted a nice conversation in the comments and also started David Wallace at lifekludger to contribute his ideas.  David writes: "...it is about making the platform more accessible to individuals and that thereby makes it more equitable. It is that change that makes the development of ‘community’ more possible." Mike Seyfang at learndogpup also has some thoughts. Mike says what's really new is that "there are significant changes in what people can PUBLISH and how they can SUBSCRIBE to pretty much anything."