I read somewhere that in the days of Abraham Lincoln, your average citizen encountered, during his or her lifetime, the same amount of information as is found in the average Sunday edition of your city newspaper. And I'll be damned if most of the stuff we're getting today isn't just noise, and at the end of our lives, we could condense all the useful knowledge we've gleaned... into one edition of a Sunday newspaper. The whole ballyahoo -- and I mean BallyYahoo! -- over the past few days reminds me of this. I occasionally wander into these senseless blogosphere babblewars, but they always end up seeming like a bunch of bald men fighting over a comb.

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