attention to Luddites whose writing is published on the web

[jrtom]

If you honestly think that the Internet is an "echo chamber" and that there's no point to online discourse (or, for that matter, voting), in part because there's too much crap on the Internet, please do us all a favor and shut the hell up. Don't write online columns or blogs that explore your views at legnth. It's the least that you can do.

(Side note: please also avoid using metaphors to describe the Internet. (This goes double for anything including the word "superhighway".) They make you sound ignorant (which may be a plus, as it makes establishing this important fact easier), but it makes my teeth ache.)

This has been a public service announcement. Thank you for listening.

(Yes, I know that no one to whom these comments apply will read this. Leave me alone, I'm self-indulgently venting.)