Tired to hearing that your blog is killing intelligent discourse in wherever it is you live? Clay Shirky drops some science in this excellent interview w/ CJR (via Sullivan). Brilliant stuff. Go read it now.

But, hey, since it's Festivus, I'll quote a spiffy bit o' grievance airing from the interview:

I mean, really, I’m just so impatient with the argument that the world should be slowed down to help people who aren’t smart enough to understand what’s going on. It’s in part because I grew up in a generation that benefited enormously from not doing that. Right? ,,, So, now it’s our turn and we ought to just suck it up.