Sports and high-culture news
Andrew Keen worries in this essay that Web 2.0 is dissolving our culture into narcissistic white noise. (Like we needed new technology to do this?) Alarmed and presumably non-existent readers should be reassured to know that this recidivist blogger is thoroughly familiar with the white flower boy and never supposed this blog to be anything but a digital reflecting pool.
Meanwhile, in London, tickets to the Chap Olympics are sold out.
And I’ve posted a new poem, just to offset this white-noise thing. (Can’t do anything about the narcissism though.)
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