Wednesday Web Roundup

• Author discusses blogosphere's impact on our culture.


• Defense Department embraces hackers, turn to hacker conference for recruits. We've come a long way from "War Games," haven't we?


• Video game helps teen cancer patients visualize the battle in their bodies. Knowledge is power, and a holistic approach to their cancer treatment hopefully will result in more positive outcomes.
  


• Jay Mariotti is set for a return to a Chicago newspaper, this time the Trib. Interesting. Isn't this the doofus that declared newspapers dead after resigning from the Sun-Times?
  


• Dan Rather makes the case for a government study of the media crisis. This is truly not a bad idea, particularly when you consider the time and money the government has spent on studying the prevalence of steroids in professional sports. The health of the media is much more important to our society and the proper functioning of government than needles in the posterior of Jose Canseco.
  
  

Media mutterings

The media buzz this week:

• Evangelists' knee-jerk reaction to social media: Changing childrens' brains


• Reaction to the reactions


• ESPN restricts social media interactions of its employees


• And the beat goes on at the New York Times: Controversy over error-ridden Cronkite article