I now have an RSS feed on my home computer. As I type out class assignments or do other things on line, my right eye is constantly drawn to the latest news update. In the past hour, I’ve read as many headlines as I once read in an entire day when I perused the daily newspaper. Here’s a sample of the past hour:  McCain Campaign Responds Angrily to Report Questioning Ethics (34m ago), an update; McCain Campaign Responds Angrily to Report Questioning Ethics (58m ago); Teamsters Back Obama (I hr ago); Hillary Clinton: “I’m Proud of the United States.”

I wonder what impact this moment-to-moment delivery of news has on our perceptions of the campaign and the candidates themselves, as they and their campaigns seek to respond immediately to almost moment-to-moment updates. The gentle fading in and out of the latest news update belies the unprecedented frantic pace the technology dictates to campaigns. Am I taking some sort of  evolutionary leap as I become a hyper-information consumer/multi-tasker? Charlise Feb. 21