A friend pointed me to this post on ars about Doris Lessing, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Lessing is concerned that all of this "blogging and blugging" is reducing people to, uh, uh...Like, blithering idiots. The author of the post offers a few gentle criticisms, pointing out that people are still reading, though in different ways. There's even the obligatory Kindle reference (it's such a fad there'll be Kindles for Ken dolls soon).

Stuff like this usually doesn't phase me, but one wonders if Lessing has bothered to read Everything Bad is Good for You. Or at least like seen the TV show.