Reading Herschell Gordon Lewis’ Curmudgeon-at-Large column on the blog craze (March), two recent news items came to mind. One was a widely circulated news story about how the U.S. population is so sleep-deprived. The other was an op-ed piece in Advertising Age pointing out how Americans are spending more time than ever watching television.
I’m puzzled. Where do people find the time to read and write all those blogs? Do only the sleep-deprived blog? Does everyone blog while watching TV? (Who feeds their pets when they’re blogging?)
Early on in the mainstreaming of the Internet, some people predicted it would become the