The Future is now - or maybe not yet: the impact of social-networking sites

Two more very interesting articles in the MediaGuardian - from Emily Bell and Anthony Lilley - on the impact of social-networking sites (esp. YouTube) on economic models used by the mainstream media and the contradictory but understandable thinking behind the recent moves by NBC and News Corporation (to make their content freely available online) and Viacom (to sue Google for making its content freely available).