In this world fueled by commercial hype and belief in anything that lacks substance, it is easy to understand why things no longer lose their appeal to the hip so much as just get replaced by the next new thing, whether it is NuTheft , the vacuous embarrassment of the next encyclical by an atheist …

Can we be collectively narcissistic? Could it be that too much access and too much information can be too much? What happens to a society when everything is ok and everything should be open and available to and from all? Is it only simply a flourishing or are their limitations inherent either in a …

I know I go on but all this digital stuff is a bit depressing. Just look at these British stats:  •  “The average Briton now spends 50 hours per week on the phone, using the net, watching TV or listening to the radio. However, the mix of how much time is spent on each one has changed radically …

...or is it just an attempt to cross-breed whales and goldfish? This article about NBC's 600 million blown in trying to converge something with something else is illustrative:  •  “Most embarrassing, an effort to increase traffic by introducing a syndicated television program, “iVillage Live …

It's all about the caverns. Name them!!!  •  People say you need three weeks off to get to that point when you can't recall the day of the week, your local phone extension or your boss's wife's name. I am lucky. I get there by about 5:43 pm on any Friday. So I am a little unclear why I am doing …

So what do you do with cheats? Fix the record says Curt Schilling:  •  “Schilling also had some choice things to say about Jose Canseco, the former Major League All-Star who has freely admitted to using steroids, and who detailed his usage in a 2005 book. "Jose Canseco admitted he cheated his …

For a blogger of some heritage relative to the medium - yes, I am now part of Canada's blogging heritage being well into my fifth year of it - I hope I have no sense of my own importance. Sure, I did once...but that was 2004 when bloggers were going to rule the planet, leading through words alone …

Yesterday Jay wrote the following about his own comment:  •  “David, my bad...  •  If the CPC wants to advertise on Pam Anderson's left nipple it's cool with me. (But it was a fun rant nonetheless.)”  •  My immediate reaction was that he would never have written that if we had been talking about a …

Good article in the New York Times abut the slog that is being a struggling rock star via the web:  •  “In the early days of the Hold Steady, Kubler fielded only a few e-mail messages a day, and a couple of "friend" requests on MySpace. But by this spring, he was receiving more than 100 …