My dear, you really need to check your birth certificate before buying such retro print Bibles. What is the magazine equivalent of “mutton dressed up as lamb?”

I save my five and ten cent pieces for The Economist, The Atlantic, Harpers, Daedelus, Private Eye, the Spectaor, Viz, MAD, English Vogue, and Tatler.

However – do we really think our reading is more broad than the old MSM? Could it just be that we stick to our niches even more when we have speciality ‘press’ that caters to our own prejudices? I have ended up leaving more than one blog I loved when I found out (usually through a commenter) that they got their facts wrong, or at very least spun them mercilessly.

…. I hump the laptop on the kitchen table.

i’m not surprised that I’m not surprised.

Bloggers are not a new species. They (WE) are nothing special, nothing strange, nothing unknown. BLOGGERS ARE PEOPLE. It’s just been so long since real people’s voices were actually represented in media or politics that when you begin hearing them, they sound so—ew—so…human! I mean, they take STRONG stands n shit! They actually let themselves get eMOTIONal about war and human suffering and stuff. Surely not glossy enough, not powdered, puffed, sanitized, fumigated, or fluffed enough!

I still buy the SMH for features more than news, but have basically stopped watching TV news (most days the ABC just reads the SMH main stories anyway).

I’m a traditional newspaper reader in the morning – SMH gets delivered and I read it over breakfast while listening to RN. I get to then end of the paper which means I have to get ready and go to work at that point. The blogosphere never ends – if I turned on the computer in the morning I reckon I’d never leave the house!

Then I read the Tele on the train to work so I pick up a bit of gratuitous outrage and try to flick through the Oz and AFR over lunch – because they are there and I can.

Must do something with all this information one day

This boomer consumes a bowl of weetbix with soy milk in front of the computer, and picks up a coffee on the way to work. The aggregator is Netvibes, though the huge amount of bandwidth it uses is attracting the evil eye of my employer’s network manager, so I think I’ll take the advice and see if Google Reader makes a difference at work.

I haven’t been able to wean myself off Monday’s (Doug Anderson’s reviews in the TV program) and Saturday’s Herald.

The ABC’s changes to the news site are very impressive, particularly the tagging, and the ability to set up your own tags on the main page. Quite possibly, they’re working on implementing Mark’s suggestions right now.

He always does pose for photos, I’ve noticed, as a sort of rakish intellectual type.

Why do people want to see pictures of Zizek? I guess that’s an imponderable along the Missy Higgins lesbian lines…

Sometimes we IM each other.

See? Social interaction, just a bit intermediated!

When I read and comment on blogs, my mind is elsewhere, off in cyberspace somewhere. When I read a book or newspaper or something similar I’m much less removed from my physical surroundings.

Of course, right now D & me are both sitting on the couch writing things on blogs. Sometimes we IM each other.

(There’s something about the physical contortions you can put a newspaper thru that allow one to pretend a certain domestic devotion that the billboard strain of a PC screen still prohibits.)

But speaking of radio – now there’s a medium. Mornings would not really be morning without the ABC filling the aural spaces of ablative weekday motion to the door.