Ryan Sholin produces an extremely worthwhile blog on media change, Invisible Inkling, and his latest post provides five fearless predictions for 2009. In the days ahead I'll carry others' diagnoses/prescriptions/hunches about media direction.
in short, Sholin suggests mobile video will go mainstream, there will be more local startups (and larger local shutdowns), newspapers will be of the Web not merely on it, alternative business models will emerge and crowdsourcing tools will surface on the back of existing platforms.
He encourages others to join in the prediction game and to keep it positive.