Wal-Mart Sees How Fast Bad Press Spreads Online

Sorry I've been gone so long. Much upheaval on the paying job front. Good upheaval, but along with Christmas, distracting from hobbies.

The theme here is something that has been emerging as the bane of modern communications. It originally looked like the ever-increasing bandwidth of our communications were going to free society by allowing the truth to flow so freely.

Freedom is a two edged sword though, and lies flow just as freely. What seems to be happening, on the web and even TV, is that people are tuning into what they want to hear. Our sources of information are getting polarized. If we even look at the other side, it's to check out what the enemy is doing.

We like to read Web sites and blogs that we agree with and that reinforce our opinions. Aside from the few of you who practice "know your enemy" browsing, how many of you liberals read http://www.nationalreview.com/? How many of you conservatives frequent http://www.thenation.com/?

This is a sign of bad things to come. Read your favorite news source to see what will happen!