And another thing . . .

If content is king, why is there so little of it on the web? And why are content providers like Salon always whining about their huge bandwidth costs, given that 99% of what they ship — and that is an exact measurement, not hyperbole — is spam?

(Note: these are rhetorical questions. Despite the burning certainty that someone on the internet is wrong, you don't need to try and explain how the advertising industry works to me. Really and truly. I'm just taking my sense of indignation for a Sunday walk.)

And he's got a 10mbps cable modem connection, while I'm out here in the boonies with glitchy dial up over a barbed wire and boogers telco system. It's a good thing that sites like Salon are mostly crap since I'm not missing anything by avoiding them.