Last Wednesday, as Roger and myself arrived at a restaurant in Monterrey Mexico for a lunch meeting, news broke about a hijacked Aeromexico plane at Mexico City’s airport.

By the time we started our lunch with Ramón Alberto Garza, founder and CEO of IndigoMedia (and certainly one of the most proficent journalists in México), news coverage was taking over radio stations, and text alerts and phone calls from friends were rapidly becoming the conduit of news updates.

Stories about new forms of communication and community – from  to email to  – seem to reach some kind of critical mass in the media this week.