[Air-L] In the morning, go online

[Conor Schaefer]

OK, point taken: pet owners might live by a different standard. But
given that dog ownership in the U.S. is by most accounts under 40% (see
two sources below), it's still fair for the NYT to gawk at a very new
trend. As the article exasperatingly declares, a single decade ago, this
behavior was almost nonexistent. And now it's already permeated our
culture (or maybe closer to 60% of it!) so completely that it's been
ritualized as a kind of "fast breaking."

You're also right that it's rather silly (although very typical) of a
major newspaper to act astounded about the prevalence and therefore
importance of internet consumption.

Sources on dog ownership:
http://www.hsus.org/pets/issues_affecting_our_pets/pet_overpopulation_and_ownership_statistics/us_pet_ownership_statistics.html

http://www.avma.org/reference/marketstats/ownership.asp

On 08/11/2009 07:29 PM, McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr. wrote:
> Anyone who's ever had a dog (or three, as in my case) can put the lie to this article's conclusion. They (very much like infants and toddlers) aren't keen to wait for people to go online before the dependent is ready to begin her/his day. I expect that there are those who breast feed or diaper on the left while using the right hand for laptop activities such as checking email, but no one (who is normal) wants to try that with a 95 pound bloodhound hanging on one's arm...
>
> Why can't the NYT feature a story about going online without hyping it (or seriously considering the "digital divide"--not between hounds and people but between people and people)?
>
> -Lisa
>
>
> On 8/11/09 6:49 PM, "Samuel Klein" <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Wash up, [connect,] change, eat, [browse, correspond, plan,] pack,
> [toggle away,] leave the house.  Work online in brackets.
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Yosem Companys<companys at stanford.edu> wrote:
>   
>> What do you do first when you wake up in the morning?  Brush your teeth?
>>  Have breakfast?  The New York Times says go online:
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/technology/10morning.html?em
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