Hey Luke,

Thought I'd send you a couple of links ahead of getting the blog set up, etc.

Here's the NYRB piece "The News About the Internet" that I used a bit last week:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22960

and the podcast interview with the author of that piece, in which he brings up a few interesting facts, including one that the Washington Post, having undergone recent downsizing, is now about the same size as it was when Woodward and Bernstein broke the Watergate scandal...

here's the .mp3:
http://media.nybooks.com/080509-massing.mp3

I didn't bring it up today, but there are a couple of interesting passages in this piece called "The Way We Have Become: a Surfeit of Seeming", particularly I think the bit about "the urge to socialise on the web becomes the urge to be *percieved* socialising" -- although most of the article is fairly philosophical and talks about other stuff irrelevant to our discussions, I still think it's interesting:
http://www.uga.edu/garev/hassan.html

Cheers,
Hugh