Month: July 2011

  • The 4th Estate versus the 5th Estate

    People are starting to call Twitter the 5th Estate. The “Estates” are the forces of power in our nation.  Traditionally, dating right back to medieval notions of status and hierarchy, the first 3 estates of the nation are clergy, noblemen and the commons.  In the eighteenth century, as printing technology became mass market relatively, the…