Seems like an apt time to rekindle this old post (April 2004) on derivatives of McLuhan, in which I consider the idea that the Internet is not a medium, but a matrix, which uses the medium of us to be actualized into existence.

And while we're rekindling old McLuhan-inspired caff, 'ave a butchers at semiurology and rear view mirrow, both from March 2002. And no pompisity would be complete without Terry Pratchett's take on it.