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As everyone knows, Al Gore (sorry Tim) claims to have invented the Web. But what not everyone knows, is that Gore's real contribution to modern society is the eradication of slow news-days via his single-handed enabling of news about news.
Meta-news is the modern world's substitute for a Roman Colosseum spectacle. Instead of mauling lions, we have rabid cheerleaders; instead of early Christian martyrs, we have a cheerleader who stepped out of line; instead of the Colosseum, we have YouTube.
After I posted about that video-taped ambush, my site's traffic spiked by an astounding 3,000% (yes, three thousand percent!).
And the hits just keep on comin'.
The controversy heated up even further when a judge in Britain allowed Rupert Murdoch's News of the World to air on its website a videotape excerpt of the encounter between Mosley and the women. ... The website's traffic immediately jumped, by 600%, as did the troubles of the 67-year-old Mosley.
As everyone knows, Al Gore (sorry Tim) claims to have invented the Web. But what not everyone knows, is that Gore's real contribution to modern society is the eradication of slow news-days via his single-handed enabling of news about news.Meta-news is the modern world's substitute for a Roman Colosseum spectacle. Instead of mauling lions, we have rabid cheerleaders; instead of early Christian martyrs, we have a cheerleader who stepped out of line; instead of the Colosseum, we have YouTube.
After I posted about that video-taped ambush, my site's traffic spiked by an astounding 3,000% (yes, three thousand percent!).
And the hits just keep on comin'.
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