The New York vicinity housing market has turned out to be a greater foe for this blog than I'd have ever predicted. I've also been working on my piece for Audience 2.0, which is coming together fairly well. So, in order to not completely vanish from Swarming Media, here's a three sentence excerpt from the upcoming Audience 2.0 piece:

Previously, the value of audience was tied to the number of participants in the exchange. In situations where audience had a high value, there were few hearing and many speaking (Court of Audience, psychotherapist). Scarcity was the determinant for control and power, just as it is when there are few speakers and many providing aural capacity (the loud concert in the park across the street from me, the ice cream truck). In both cases we see an imbalance between the raw number of participants on either end – few to many.