Love love love this essay. As someone who does play WoW as well as a 2nd MMO, crafts, and blogs, and tries to interact, I really really agree with it.

T.V. is thing you veg out to when you are tired of doing for the day and are getting ready to go to sleep. ( Or the background noise that helps you time cooking dinner while gaming/spinning/knitting!)

I adore this essay, and note with warm regard everyone in the blogosphere who’s commenting on it, and recognizing them-/our-selves.

So - I think L. and I are not alone in eschewing living with a TV; I also think our choice is becoming more commonplace over the past just-a-few years. Not that we don’t still fritter time away reading and messing about on the computers, of course, but yes, indeed, I find myself more active at the websites where one does something.
I wonder how many Wikipedia-projects big the Gutenberg Project is at this point, having started to get public domain books into machine-readable state in 1972 and ballooning some time around 2002 or whenever it was someone built a system for folks to proofread in page-sized units rather than book-sized units. Hrm, no, I’m not going to count; I’m happy enough to know it’s there and my wee contributions have impact.

This essay is spot-on. My two boys, ages 3 and 6 find the whole idea of broadcasting, either television or radio to be quite absurd. Used to tv “on demand,” videos/dvds, and Momma’s iPod, they are frustrated by the idea that they can’t pause or rewind or otherwise control their own media experience.

Holy finger on the pulse of New Media Batman! This episode was even more full of awesomeness than your usual shows. A must listen.

I was in the middle of reading this essay for the second time when this QN episode popped up in my downloads. I’d much rather hear Sage’s voice read it to me. Thanks.

This is an incredible essay.

I really liked this essay. As a history major I learned that the most important event of the 20th century was the movement of 60 percent of the population of America to the cities.

As a an avuncular friend I told my friends kids a few years ago, about the way the lagoon would produce a way to save the castaways, but Gilligan would mess it up this week and the Skipper would hit him with his hat! Next week the lagoon would produce some way ….

I podcast. I write. I am now a voice actor and a blogger.

I want to take part in the next change

and change is happening!