Something

that concerns me about the intertubes...

Lincoln's Doctor's Dog

"All of which is to say that one of the more troubling developments I am seeing in some parts of the blogosphere (not here but elsewhere) is that writers are increasingly being paid according to how much traffic they generate. It’s an understandable development. What publisher wishes to pay for writing nobody reads? But the problem is that high traffic is not a measure of good writing. If it were, then LOLCATS is the War and Peace of this generation."

(Though, I must admit, that I do feel, in my uncharitable moments, that LOLCATS IS the War and Peace of this generation. The length of those kind of comments is certainly about the current average attention span, I think.)

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