A Completely Different Topic for Diversion

I have a good friend who is helping to develop a new radio show (due to begin May 30th), based near Boston. She tipped me off today to the blog associated with it, which I guess has been around since April 8th. I have some catching up to do. I started at the first day:

Chris Lydon, at Radio Open Source, has a lengthy and interesting inaugural blog entry discussing the connections among journalism, radio, blogging, and international conversational communities, and including this fascinating quote about the internet:

One of the unspoken reasons we are drawn to the Internet is that it realizes so many of our primal old definitions of God. It’s invisible. It’s everywhere. It knows everything. Sing it now: It’s got the whole world in its hands. Its eye is on the sparrow, paraphrasing the Ethel Waters song, and I know it watches me. Why else do we keep Googling ourselves if not to be reminded that the Internet knows who I am, and who you are, too.

Regarding the title of the blog, I found this quote funny:

I wouldn’t know source code if it bit me.

The Open Source blog has already drawn my interest at all kinds of personal levels, only having glanced at the front page and the opening post.
1. My own best friend since age 4 is co-writing it (I've seen two of her posts already on the front page today). This is the best reason.
2. It's based at U Mass Lowell, where my first serious boyfriend went to college, and whose town my son and I studied this year a bit as a part of the American Industrial Revolution.
3. It's based near Boston, where I was born, and whose airport was my home airport for five years during college and early marriage.
4. It mentions a whole slew of bloggers also frequently mentioned on my friend Julie Leung's blog.
5. Its title reminds me of Julie's husband, Ted, who performed our wedding ceremony and sang with David in college.
6. It mentions Jamaica, which I visited in fall of 2003 for the first time.
7. That quote comparing God and the internet was really interesting. True, they're both invisible, omnipresent and omniscient. But I don't think the internet can touch God in the area of Love. Forgiveness. Mercy. And though the internet is pretty powerful, it doesn't quite make it to "omnipotent" - there are some things you just can't do over the 'net.