Sometimes this annoying twitter business does bring good things. A fellow named Martin J Allsop started “following me” so I went and checked out his stuff (which, btw, I do when you friend or follow me anywhere because that is what one should do – go see what people who like you are like – ya know?).

The news can be a very funny thing.

I think we have had numerous conversations through this blog about the nature of the news that we see being careful constructed to promote and support the advertising placed around it. Last summer, when I was reading that book and posting excerpts about how newscasts are designed, was an education for all of us.

I talked for hours with someone yesterday about the strange shift and trend we have noticed, a coming together of efforts a steady growing loss of the effortless – if that makes sense.

In the middle of this all, unspoken but felt, is an acknowledgement of a ki