Read My Lips - the blog

Forever in the SPOTLIGHT

I meant to point ya'll to this Dallas Morning-News story yesterday.

Combine the proliferation of media outlets – cable television, the Internet – with the trend of a few media conglomerates controlling the content of more and more outlets, and you have the basic recipe for instant overkill.

Its effect on consumers is best described as "simul-tedium" – the increasingly common experience of being sick of hearing about something at almost the same moment you first hear about it.

"There is a change taking place – no doubt about it," says Paul Levinson, a media studies professor at Fordham University and author of The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution. "We've reached a point when there's so much media that when something catches on, it's just suddenly everywhere and there's almost no escaping it."

Have you ever just gone from blog to blog and seen the same story again and again until you wonder if there is anything interesting happening anywhere else?