There has been a rapid change in the nature of social media (the 'blogosphere') in the past year or so, based on a few factors: ubiquitous higher bandwidth, increased online population, increased use of RSS and other feed technologies, and growing awareness and use of conversational, 'flow' applications like Twitter, Friendfeed, Jaiku, Readburner, and many, many others. Given the movement of conversations out of the blogs that often spark them, what sort of social space are we going to see emerge in the next few years? What are the missing pieces of the social glue we need to keep this world together instead of breaking into a million tiny, segregated enclaves?