[arasina]

I think for the first time in their publishing lives they are beginning to have to pay attention to their work. Time was they just blasted away and there was nothing an unhappy reader could do. Seems to me like these days enough people react to a cover or article to make it worth the publisher's time to think about it before running it.

Another reason we can be thankful for the internet and what I call back fence reporting. We are all neighbors now. The old media are no longer gods and kings to be worshiped for their "knowledge".

[jwparkerjr]

I sit here, way too many hours, and marvel at what the Internet has brought to our lives. I think back to being a kid in a small town in the mid-1950’s and just to make a long distance phone call was quite an experience. Limited TV, one station all the way down in Miami that we could get only with an outside antenna and even then only at night. Daytime reception was non-existent.

I'll not bore with detail after detail, but I am so thankful to have lived in that time and now in this time. My grandmother was born in 1891 and died in 1978. She remembered seeing her first airplane, etc. And she lived to see men walking on the moon. I'm a generation or two too late for that, but I am amazed daily at what the Internet brings to our lives!