“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

“In 2006, Time magazine announced that its Person Of The Year was “You”. “You control the Information Age,” gushed the magazine. “Welcome to your world.” What Time neglected to mention was that most of the Internet content comprising the “Information Age” is bollocks: 200 million MySpace members attempting to interest people in their badly recorded demos; 10 million Second Lifers trying to get their digital rocks off — presumably because they can’t do so in the real world; 40 million Facebook users showing off their holiday snaps; and 70 million blogging monkeys attempting to type the Bible. Apparently, of the 120000 new blogs created every day, 50 percent focus on exactly the same subject: the blogger him or herself.”

www.thetimes.co.za
June 8 2008