from Hacker News

I'm probably going to fail at conveying this idea, but I really need some guidance, so please bear with me.

If you consider across history, and redefine all "social mediums" as "social media", we have by far one of the most decentralized social systems available. However, the systems I see online are inadequate to capture the full scope of the idea.

We're now at a place where we don't need someone telling us about a bombing: we can see the video that some guy who caught it on the ground had randomly uploaded.

When I look at things like NYT/Reuters, I see a conventional "blog": paid specialists writing eloquent depictions of what happened. If I look at Facebook/Twitter, I see algorithmically tailored feeds of what people want, but precisely as people see it.

Is it possible to converge the two? If so, what kind of framework would you expect to see? And, from a critical mass standpoint, how do we make it the Wikipedia of social media?