Internets are Serious Business

Lest anyone should doubt it, let me reiterate that the Internet, despite constant assertions to the contrary, is in fact serious business.

I've learned a lot in a short amount of time due to the events of the past few days. One of these lessons had to do with context and the authority of “blogged” versus traditional media. I spent an hour or so yesterday reading about several more or less recent court cases whose dominant conflicts could be reduced to a question over who deserves the protection of journalistic rights or, more simply, “blogged” journalism versus "traditional" journalism. I found the results very interesting when considering the same arguments in relation to an internetified critical practice.

I spent a big honkin chunk of time this morning writing a long post about these relations but in the end, I pulled it. The reason being, while I was in the shower I realized the issue was much larger than I had sketched it. Wanting to do it justice, I think this is a job for Palace Wreck. Suffice it to say that there is much to discuss.
Anyway, I cited an example to reiterate one of my points about blogs and though the whole thing was scrapped, I still want to leave you with the decontextualized "case in point" as it were: Here you go, lol.

Update #1.
In starting to gather some materials (online and off) for further study, I've come across this panel discussion which, though spotty, offers some interesting tidbits and observation for expansion. It's from 2005, which, in internet terms, seems to be around 100 years ago.

I've also started to read an incredible antique entitled "Trusting Aesthetics to Prosthetics - Art Criticism Internet World Wide Web Sites". Oh yes, my friends. Carbon dating suggests this relic to have been written around the year CE 1997 or, if you're incapable of counting that high, approximately 750 years ago.