The Speed of Information

Facebook: A Demonstration of a Transparent Content Management System

Most people are amazed after only minutes of initially exploring Facebook when they see friends or family that they havn't seen in years or infrequently have contact with.  The reason: very busy and non-technical people can quickly and easily post their stories.  A quick update of a status, photo albums, links and comments on favorite videos and articles - a person can initiate these actions in literally minutes and then move on.

Content Management has been too focused on design

That's not the way most websites author their content.  Every post is a work of art, even when it doesn't come out that way.  An organization's story moves like a glacier compared to a person's story on Facebook.  Or, take Twitter - the posting of 140 bite size statements.  That process fully backs the concept of immediate and ongoing story telling.  And don't interpret that process as forgoing quality - the best Twitteres think long and hard about how to package a powerful statement in a single sentence.  It's about what you're saying - not how it's packaged. 

Flow: The Economy depends on it, So to will tomorrow's information consumer

Television and Newspapers are besieged with the new models of information consumption.  60 second Youtube clips are a completely different model to how TV evolved.  While news outlets constantly critisize the lack of thoroughness and credibility of blogs, the demand for immediacy is defening and overwelming.