James Drogan

This item from USA Today raises interesting questions related to my earlier post of Swimming in the Sea of Knowledge.

I would like to add to these questions.

How does the easy availability of a large amount of information promote the development of  critical thinking and communications skills?  The notion here is that it is easy to ask the Internet (what a phrase!) a question.  If the answer is not what one seeks, ask again.  It's easy.   But in this process does one think much about the most appropriate question to ask?  Is the result a regrettable consumption of bandwidth -- physically and mentally -- and an equally regrettable lack of focus on objectives and issues? 

Does this ease diminish the ability to discriminate between fact and fiction?  Or truth and all else?  Or to see  holes in an argument?  Or see the whole of the argument?

Are we simply becoming busier, but not better? 

I've been reading this blog for sometime and I'm beginning to wonder about the point of Milking (as in milking  something for all it's worth).  While apparently a popular blog, what does she contribute to the national discussion that is meaningful?  Milking is all too quick with the acid and the stiletto, but rarely (ever?) forthcoming with useful ideas.

Is there a reason why she has no ability for a reader to publicly comment on  her posts?  Perhaps the comment button is there, buried somewhere on the right side of the page (certainly one would not expect it be in the center or, horror of horrors, on the left).  Perhaps. like most of her ilk, she is simply trying to control the conversation.

Ah, the Heda Hopper of cyberspace.

I saw a little article earlier today where AOL claims that 8 of 10 inbound messages are spam.  I wonder how many of these are from Milking?

Abraham Lincoln said "You can fool some of the people..."  Such attention as Milking gets is apparently reliant on this law.