It is interesting in this age of technology how rapidly we can spread a fact or a rumor. With that idea I must also stress that until something is fact that, as we hide behind our mysterious identifications of our blogs, we can spread fiction as easily as fact and it is hard to tell the difference.
With that in mind I read a sports article in the paper today that gave a timeline for some fact/fictiion as it was presented to him concerning Houston Nutt, Tommy Tuberville, Mike Leach or whoever would be coach at Arkansas Razorbacks.
Here it is:
8:11 pm: My sources tell me that Houston Nutt will become SMU coach Tomorrow
8:12 Pm: Reliable sources tell me that Houston Nutt will be Georgia Tech Tomorrow
8:14 PM: Reliabel sources say that Houston Nutt will be the Ole Miss Coach tomorrow
8:18 PM: Sources say that Houston Nutts agent is having a field day.
Wow - what is truth and what is fiction and how fast it spreads.
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Culture and gossip. Just a new form. Anil Dash, talking about a meme conference, ROFLCon to be held at Harvard,
writes, "Because prior to the ascendancy of television as the creator of popular mass culture half a decade ago, the primary method of passing along and popularizing new aspects of culture was through existing social ties. We're returning to that sort of transmission, to culture being mediated by our social networks, though obviously the existence of the Internet has radically changed the way those networks communicate today."
This comment is from a nonBlogger, with a link only back to my site via my inserting it in this place by handwriting the coding to give a link back MotherPie which is a real hassle and involves a lot of cut/paste.
Blogging has stimulated conversation among virtual/real friends but Blogger, by altering the commenting structure, has limited comments only to Google's bloggers using the Blogger platform. Crummy move, Google/Blogger. See my post on this: Blogger Comment Changes Stink. Period. Use Haloscan for commenting - the link is in my post comments.
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