In My Day We Only Had Colour TV

Something which I'd noticed recently but thought was only peculiar to the Puumaja was that I virtually never watch TV any more. Admittedly, notwithstanding the improvement in language skills that watching TV here could bring, when most of the stations are not in your mother tongue it can sometimes induce you to seek other forms of entertainment; but I don't think that's the reason.
Clay Shirky (we're not going to take the mick out of people's names here at the PMC any more, he is american after all) a writer and consultant whose been using the internet since it began (that's welll before you or I) did this excellent little presentation some years ago where he attempts to shed light on the role of TV (filling what he calls the 'cognitive surplus') and how that has changed particularly since the rise of the net. Glad to know I'm not alone. Still, I'd never be a wikipedia contributor..