What's the buzz? The internet is alive with discourse, much of it false, inaccurate or designed to mislead -- and by the same token -- much of it rational, grounded in fact, and interested in the search for truth. People wade into this fermenting mass, both to share and confirm their ideologies -- no matter how irrational, and to try and speak truth to power and to one another. One tends naturally toward the opinion that one's own ideologies are based on a rational assessment of reality, but these also reflect much of one's background and personal issues.

This discursive list comes from the online nominees for the 16th annual Utne Independent Press Awards:

alternet.org aldaily.com beliefnet.com boingboing.net corpwatch.org cursor.org - winner mediamatters.org newpages.com pitchforkmedia.com pressthink smartmobs.com whitehouse.org worldchanging.com - winner
		This one comes from experience: adbusters.org americanprogress.org americanprospect.org commondreams.org inthesetimes.org theonion.com tompaine.com workingforchange.com
It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water. Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and think me half a fool To miss a day away in the cool country. Maybe. But in a book I read and cherish, Going to Walden is not so easy a thing As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult Trick of living, and finding it where you are.           Mary Oliver, Going to Walden