Chris+R+Gin,+television,+And+Cognitive+Surplus

Know: -For most people most of the time watching tv is the activity. -Watching Malcome in the middle -Lolcats are notriously poorspellers -The stupidest possiable creative act is still a creative act. -When you buy a machine that lets you consume digital content, you also buy a machine to produce it. (Which is a computer)

Want to know: -Whats a Gin pushcarts? -Whats a Gin Craze? -Whats a Sitcom? -What does the Lolcats have to do with the internet?, and how has it change the internet except in how they spell words now... -Whats a Looky-Loos?

Learn: -People drinking Gin it's a palatable intoxicating a winning combination. -London was a site of the biggest influx of population asa result of industralization. -Only radio has been as omipresent. -Someone born in 1960 has watched fifty thousand hours of tv already, and may watch another thirty thousand hours before they die. -The young will go away when they grow up because work will exhaust them and won't be able to do anything but slump on the tv. -Ushahidi project started as a website but ushahidi developers quickly added the ability to submit information via text messege.