Media Savvy vs. Media Whore

Where does the line between being in the know, on the ball, up to date and out to lunch fall? Should we be trying to be constantly keeping our fingers poised on the cultural pulse by trying to get in on the ground floor of the next viral sensation? Are we being cool by connecting our friends with the next big thing? Or are we missing the bigger picture?

I am constantly feeling conflicted between wanting to be hep, and wanting to be hip. Hep is knowing what everyone else is about to know; hip is the love of knowing what you're about. Tricky, tricky. While I would like to be the one responsible for actually creating the things which infect and infest our inboxes - I admit it; I want to go viral - I am, alas, merely self-assured and behind the technological eight ball.

The New York Times toed this fine line between being savvy and whorish, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/fashion/17TEXT.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26 and before this post - that is, when I wasn't blogging - I could confidently call myself the former.