Maybe you should go back to poliblogging
Matt Richtel in the NY Times: The Lure of Data: Is It Addictive? Several people wrote pointing me to this piece...Sorry, but I'm not going to sit here and have human curiosity — our need to know, our intellectual passions, our extreme generosity with knowledge and knowhow... or hell, just doing our jobs (which have always been frenetic, one way or another) trivialized and dismissed as yet another addiction.
[The Doc Searls Weblog]It's so predictable you almost wonder if over on 43rd St. they say, "Hey, let's bait that Searls guy again and see if he works himself up into yet another self-congratulatory lather over the One True Medium. What this time?"
I mean, really. Check "our extreme generosity with knowledge and knowhow." Also the condescending bone thrown to librarians in the last paragraph (not quoted).
Here's what's in your magazines right now: Lots of stuff you're not interested in. Same with your newspapers.
As for radio: Forget it, unless you're an amen-corner conservative, a sports junkie, an NPR addict, or in need of a traffic report in the next fifteen minutes.
Here's what's on the Web right now: yet more complainage (Note to Doc: this "-age" thing is getting sooooooo old) and blogorrhea from a buncha control freaks who are hugely incensed that the press doesn't say what they tell them to, and doesn't recognize them for the far-reaching genius revolutionaries they are, and actually may not gasp! agree with them.
Note to Old Media (like you're reading this): anything you report on these guys which doesn't consist entirely of unvarnished praise will result in this sort of egotistical spleen. Just wait for the logorrheic aneurysms we'll see when AOL Journals do everything Horribly, Horribly Wrong. Jesus. I am so sick of these hypemeisters dressing up business opportunism as altruistic rebellion that I actually feel sympathetic for AOL Time Warner. I never thought I'd see the day.