If you have an interesting opinion to share, you can express it in an op-ed article. If you’re persuasive enough, you can reach thousands of people and actually change minds. Sometimes op-eds sway more people than columns.

If you spend much of your spare time on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Hacker News and other online social networking services, do you still have time for your real friends in your real life?

It’s difficult to appraise the media coverage of this conflict after only one week. The media hype hasn’t been helpful. In fact, it’s been rather damaging.

It’s very difficult to guess where the media, whether traditional or social, will be going in 20 years’ time, as the digital age we live in is still in its infancy.

What’s for certain is that we’ll be sharing more and more information about ourselves on social media sites, willingly or not, because these sites will make sure users present the most complete profiles possible. For example we’ll be encouraged to share more and more pictures and videos of ourselves, of relatives or friends. The idea is to keep users engaged on social media platforms for as long as possible, while allowing marketers to target their ads to a more specific group of individuals.

With the rise of the Internet, quite a few commentators have announced the death of television or the radio. However, TV has proved far more resilient than many imagined not that long ago. The days of programmes pulling in over 100 million viewers in the U.S. may be over due to the multiplicity of TV channels and media, but the traditional TV industry is still very strong and will be for many, many years to come.