and she said.. "how you interpret the dream is probably more important than the dream itself"

The average lifespan of a Web page today is 100 days according to some dude from the internet archive. He says that is no way to run a culture.. and he may have a point, as far as I am concerned. The article referenced is directed more at citations and research than anything else but I think it's also important to look at the social impact of such change. Due to the emergence of Radio, TV, and now the Internet, the entertainment of the people is a system of constant change.. a lot different than it was long ago when the same plays or operas were performed over and over again. Sure, playwrites worked hard to churn out new material but not at the level we see in our culture today.. We now live in such a fast-paced society that "entertainment" has been reduced to 5 second clips of adolescent boys embarrassingly waving a "lightsabre" around.. Even full length TV shows are split up into bite-sized portions. Commercials split the shows up item 5 minute blocks, sub-plots split those blocks up into 1 minute pieces, and in the case of some of the nations most watched shows such as Cops and America's Funniest Home Videos, the media-bites are as short as a few seconds. What is the ultimate social impact here?

We all know about AD(H)D.. but is there more to worry about? Will the internet ultimately kill the book and the newspaper? No, probably not. The short story has not killed the novel and the newsletter has not killed the magazine so we don't have to worry yet.. but there will no doubt be social impacts in ways we can't even imagine. Something to think about anyway..

Oh, and as mentioned here some while ago, Opus is back! Read his interview here.. it's really quite a chuckle, if you are at all familiar with his ..umm.. opus. HA. I made a funny.