There's a morbidly fascinating direction to media cycles.  When a crisis occurs, the immediate reaction is to seek an explanation.  How did this happen?  Who do we blame?  How can we help?  We aren't after information; information is obtained through rigour, not through rapid development.  We're after judgement, and the quicker the better, because the intoxicating po

I know it's been a very long time since I've blogged. I can put this to a lot of things:  a rather marked increase in the workload at my day job, a pair of volunteer tasks that require a fair amount of focus and attention, a need to work at writing things that I hope to send out for publication in the near future.  There's more to it, though. Unless you've been completely cut off from