A thought occurs

I was writing a post for one of my other blogs, and the following thought occurred to me:

"I am sitting on the toilet, blogging."

Now... The implications of this are vast. I mean... Has it ever occurred to anyone?... We live in a world where virtually anyone can actually report to the world on his or her bowel movements and have them published for all to see BEFORE he or she has even wiped! Imagine how this technology could be perverted and misuesd!

Yes, Wi-Fi has been around a while... and if you were a serious nerd before that, you could have a long Ethernet cable and bring your desktop PC into the bathroom... but... has it been done before?... and if so... had it been considered? Or, had it been done without consideration; without reflection?

A restaurant critic could write a review of a meal he's had at Panera, publish it using the free Wi-Fi connection they offer, and have it impact the qaulity of his dessert! Information moves that fast now!

Sure, he could just as easily have gotten up from his seat and praised or bitched-out the staff at Panera, then asked for a desert... approximately the same effect... but, then, where would all the telecommunications companies be? Thousands of IT workers would be... well... out of work. Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable would go dark and atrophy from lack of use. Oh, what a catastrophe that would cause!

Further the ever-increasing ubuquity of the Internet has made it possible to millions of passive-agressive, obsessive-compulsive, manic-depressive folks to vent to an imagined audience without consequence. This is what the "Mainstream Media" glibly refers to as the "Blogosphere".

Why, those blogging bastards! I'd like to... uh... nevermind.