Champion’s blog

THIS BLOG BY MIKE CHAMPION, who is based in Sussex, offers mostly favorable thoughts on my writings. (I’ve exchanged two or three emails with Champion, who seems to be a great fan of McLuhan, which I find strangely rare in the UK where he is almost always dismissed as a “technological determinist,” a demonstrably false view: saying that our explicit thoughts are dwarfed by the medium in which they occur does not mean that changing those background media is outside our power.)

There is also at least one extremely rude anonymous comment on Champion’s page, including one in which I am actually called the c-word for the first time I’m aware of (by someone who thinks my name is “Harmen” and strays from the Tao in other, more serious ways). I’m not sure why people are inclined to say things like that.