Today's Question: What Do You Think About the Dictionary's New Words?

Last week the New Oxford American dictionary announced that "unfriend" was the word of the year for 2009. I find it fascinating that our vocabulary is being dictated by our digital world.

In fact, I was interviewed in an article for The Columbus Dispatch.

So, what do you think about our word of the year? I guess I better add it to my online spell check!

Today's Question: Do We Really Need All This "News"?

Do you know what you were doing between 2-5pm EST on Thursday, October 15? Chances are you at least heard about Balloon boy--maybe that's because the online and news world lit up with the coverage...on CNN alone we got 2 hours of coverage of the UFO-like flying creation and interviews with "Balloon Experts" within an hour of the BalloonTrack 2009!

My problem is that as we, the (people) consumer, put demands on a 24/7 media watchdog, are we forcing them to make questionable decisions on what is or isn't news--do you know right now, you can find an article on how Dolly Parton and Jessica Simpson are tweeting about their bra size--you might think this is on www.people.com but actually it's on the new www.cnn.com!

I studied about investigative reporting that uncovered scandals and in-depth reports. Since it's all about supply and demand--why are we demanding more of this questionable news material? I'm afraid this is a shift that is here to stay...but maybe if we stopped demanding, we'd get a better supply!