Will soundbite politics win out over soundblast politics? That's the question that was on my mind as I flew out to Los Angeles yesterday evening and watched Rev. Jeremiah Wright speaking live on CNN at the NAACP Detroit convention.

Will Barack Obama's big speech on race in America be remembered for the sound-bites our broadcast media system chooses to amplify, or will it be remembered for the sound-blasts that our networked internet media system chooses to share and spread? Will broadcast's need for a simple narrative continue to dumb-down our politics? Can the abundant spaces of the internet enable enough Americans to think about complex issues like race in depth? Those are the questions on my mind as I ponder the aftermath of Obama's big speech.