Five years ago, I was the managing editor at Canada’s first daily webzine about technology, called The Convergence (it was to be called Convergence, but the dot-com was taken). Ostensibly, it was about how the coming convergence of technology would affect our daily lives.

Real convergence has arrived (witness Tuesday’s decision by a U.S. appeals court to strike down rules limiting the size of the global media giants), and it’s resulting in a lot of noise. Lost Remote, though, is trying to cut through it all. In its recent editorial, entitled “The Convergence Culture Clash”, the webzine explains what this could mean for today’s journalists. But Canada’s big media seems headed in the opposite direction.

Now is the time for journalists, not their managers, to decide the ethical guidelines that could prevent problems like CanWest’s “national editorial” fiasco from recurring.

One of the interesting side-effects of convergence has been the unbelievable surge in “personal journalism” through Weblogs such as this. There has been a lot written about this, but the NPR offered a nice overview in a recent segment.