I will help you. I am doing a project on this and have complete 2 projects that theorized the rise of this convergence. I am a designer and I believe I can be a great benefit to you as well as you to me. As well we can benefit the rest of the world. I am very excited about this.
The project I am currently working on involved making a "lanaguage" that would better faciliate this convergence. Please contact me if you are interested.

ape wrote:
] The project I am currently working on involved making a
] "lanaguage" that would better faciliate this convergence.
] Please contact me if you are interested.

Tell me some about your language ideas. Awhile back I was thinking about language in the context of designing a pigeon specifically designed to work with translators. In terms of the type of media convergence discussed in this piece of flash, dialect might be the work that best fits. If the goal is to come up with a way of writing news stories that can easily be rearranged to suit a reader, conventions like AP Style seem the best place to look for a starting point.

I believe that the very way a news article is written must change before we are to progress at all. The practice of using linear sentence structures on a digital device is pretty ridiculous. The way I see it is that the news(or any other form of conversation) is about creating truth structures. Example:

"Apples are green"
could be:
apple-green

so then

"Apples are green and round"
could be:
apples - round
|
green

This nonlinear sentence structure allows for meaning to be recorded. Each person creates these truth structures based on what information they pick up from different sources. When they encounter someone else in a conversation(from reading an article to having a chat) two different truth structures are overlayed upon one another.

I will have a website for this soon explaining the whole deal.