LO fuckin' L

I got Californication from Daniel (legal copy of course) and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I don't think I've enjoyed a series this much since Deadwood and one of episode 4's themes hit right on a sore spot for me lately. Blogs and the rest of the Internet have really hurt the art of writing. Look at online newspapers today whose journalists have turned into idiot translators without any respect for fact checking at all. In Norway they've perverted the language so far that "karakter" no longer means a grade, it's now been anglicized into personality (from character). People don't take time to write properly anymore, to sit down and read over what they are trying to say and gather their thoughts in any sort of structure. I don't mean to say that I'm a good writer, but at least I try, pouring a few hours into my Less is More paper which to date has gotten not a single productive criticisms, probably because it's more than 2 paragraphs long.

My old BBS, fix.no, no longer has any articulated discussions like it did back in the old days and online I can only think of a handful of sites which don't simply reproduce Reuters tidbits or have been disintegrated into a list of "first" comments mixed with error laden troll posts. Information is moving too fast now and scanning an RSS feed doesn't do it for me. I want less, but better information instead of Google News. This isn't just a rant from some 30 year old about the good-old-days, I really do think we are providing a setting for making people more stupid.