To tackle this changing landscape, Tim O’Reilly - the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc., open standards advocate, coiner of the term ‘Web 2.0,’ and buzzed-about short-list candidate for BO’s tech czar - stops by to discuss the MSM’s supposed collapse post-election, the opportunities MSM leaders are missing in their obsession with their own demise, and some of the major technological initiatives discussed at the recent Web 2.0 Summit he hosted in San Francisco with John Battelle. He also addresses some essential job qualifications for the soon-to-be-named tech czar and handicaps who among the digerati he thinks could best handle the job (not him, he says). Other topics addressed include how Twitter is creating new channels for people to communicate with government and consume news, and whether the President-Elect’s new media strategy really does offer the much-hyped transparency that netroots junkies are orgasming over, as Slate’s John Dickerson took umbrage with earlier this week.

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Mom and I saw "Wall-E" last night and now I’m smitten with the little guy. Some friends had told me beforehand that there were a lot of adult themes in the movie and I wondered while watching how a child would process them. I’d like to see it again and think about it some more.

I can’t imagine what it would be like to grow up the way kids do now, in a world of screens, iPods, emails and constant text messaging. (Even Kung Fu Panda threatened to kick our butts if we engaged in the practice in the pre-show entertainment!) This movie represents a lot of the issues they’ll deal with, but it was particularly interesting in terms of how we’ll preserve our humanity as we become more invested in our technologies. I like that technology was represented here as a positive, even though there were obvious perils when people became too dependent.

Oh, and cheers for the "Rogue Robots." Love those guys!