Condolences to my close personal friend Dan Kennedy, who lost out to Wired's Clive Thompson in the Best Commentary-Digital category at this year's Mirror Awards.
Of course, it's an honor just to be nominated....
Today's New York Times Magazine story on "screen literacy," written by Kevin Kelly, begins with a brief synopsis of technology's effect on human thought. Basically, Kelly seems to believe that today's image-centric culture challenges authority in a way that the text-centric culture of the past never did: