When Anna Nicole Smith died, I was at work. one of my co-workers wife called up and told him that she had heard it on the radio and asked if he heard anything. The first thing we did went to Technorati and right away found a blog post talking about her death…..

A couple of weeks ago, when the Oscars were on, I was trying to find out the winners . Even though I was sitting right in front of my television and could’ve easily turned to the channel and watched it, I went to Technorati every 10 minutes or so getting updates from the different blogs that were making blog post….

 Last week, a friend of mine called and asked if I had heard anything about Sinbad dying. at the time I hadn’t, but right after I got off the phone, once again I searched Technorati looking for info (which it ended up being a hoax).

Notice a trend here?

No, its not that in each of these situations I used Technorati…..Its that I went to the web for the answers instead of watching the news or reading a newspaper etc.

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I have almost gotten to the point where the internet is my first, and sometimes only choice of finding out info or whats going on.

Yea I do still read the newspaper, magazines (lots of them), and watch TV / "the news", but now I do those things primarily for entertainment and I hate to say it, time wasting. When I want to find out whats going on…or "the news" I usually go to my favorite sources on the web to satisfy those inquiries.

Not only has that been the case with finding out about current or breaking news, it also has been the case with a lot of other things. For example, in my closet, I have a 2005 and 2006 phone book (yellow pages) on the shelf…..still shrink wrapped . I cant remember the last time I used the yellow pages to find a phone number of business. If I were to forget my cell phone, and had to call someone, I would be completely at a lost because I haven’t remembered anyones phone number in years.

The funny thing about all this is how times have made such a huge change in such a short time. When I was in high school (graduated in 1990) you could get in trouble for having a calculator in class, now a lot of school kids are being issued notebook computers every year. I cant imagine how things will be in another 10 years or so.