Speaking of the internet revolution

Wall Street Journal Article on Paid Youtube Smear Campaign

Stephen Colbert on Wikipedia.

All links from karentraviss, linkblogger extrodinaire. (Come to think of it she also writes books, maybe I should read one of those sometime.) Her comments are also worth reading.

That's my PSA for the week. Back to trivialities!

EDIT: Speaking of books, this was in Oryx and Crake. (The, ah, amateur-ing of news and entertainment, leading to the collapse of all culture and civilization.) Maybe I should bookblog that sometime.

EDIT2: Update on the google situation. Turns out I can access sites with google-supported ads, they just take an unbelieveably long time to load. And to think I laughed about the dangers of a two-tiered internet. (People's attention spans aren't that short! I said. They'll wait the extra minute (or in my case five-to-ten)! I said. HA HA.)

EDIT3: Is it me or is that Mainichi Seiten fic not so bad after all? It's still threadbare, but it's not the terrible sappy abrupt monstrosity I thought it was. The last section NEEDS WORK, though, because Mayumi's thoughts are so abbreviated. Should I switch it to Yuuta POV (allowing Mayumi to remain mysterious)? Or should I do the correct but much more difficult thing, and expand on what Mayumi is thinking? Also, why has no one claimed the last line yet.