Flutterby™! :

While I've been busy blistingering and bruising my fingers building hardware, the rest of the world's been reacting to the AOL/Time-Warner merger, so I suppose I should toss out some commentary. In another forum Jesse James Garrett asked how two media companies managed to keep this quient. Quite simple, really: journalism is dead. News has been manufactured for a while. I didn't post anything on it on Flutterby because this shouldn't surprise anyone. AOL's been trying to advertise themselves as synonymous with the Internet ever since they got a browser. Those of us toiling outside the city need to make sure that we keep enough of interest out here in the fields that they need to keep the gates open, if we let that go we lose that small foothold we've managed for ourselves, and once again we no longer own the presses.