Microsoft just made a dumb move. I decided to recreate how I think the conversation went between the tech guy and his boss. Tech guy: It seems a lot of customers are complaining about the new Hotmail. Bugs throughout the site, some of them can’t even log in. Boss: Fix it. Tech guy: That will take a few weeks, what do we do in the mean time. Boss: It works fine on Google’s Chrome, get them to use that. Tech guy: I don’t know about that, don’t you think we should focus on Internet Explorer? Boss: Who’s the boss? Tech guy: You are… Boss: Exactly. After thousands of complaints from customers over their…

Whenever someone talks about how the internet is making us stupid, I tend to get a little skeptical. After all, for all the worry about how our attention spans are being shortened by the fast pace of the web, or how the internet is full of trash, there is another side. The internet is also absolutely chock full of smart, challenging material: philosophy videos on YouTube, descriptions of Chinese classical music, sites dedicated to intellectuals or entire sites meant to spread cultural theory. There is tons of this stuff everywhere. But there is another aspect to having access to so much stuff. Because…