Now that the ripples in the CMB are known to be a mine of information, the gold rush has begun.
Drawing on chants, carnival rhythms, hip-hop and clapping, this is music as circus: disorientating because of the sheer rush of information it provides.
What effect, I wonder, does this rush of information have on the way the world sees this event?
Since Friday, we've had access to the age's full range of digital content: images, videos, audio, and a rush of information from social-media sites.
Just as the International Herald Tribune explains and distills the cacophonous rush of information each day, Rendezvous will bring you the best analysis of big stories, written by bloggers based in Asia and in Europe.
Yet I also remember, monitoring the rush of information in the newsroom, a sense of shame that our president chose to fly around in silence all day, as if his safety was more important than standing with his badly wounded nation.
And in that second, a door opens and a rush of information fills our unconscious.
While the cafe scene teeters on the brink of mainstream, a veritable gold-rush of information threatens to inundate the consuming populace.
Brown's argument is hampered, however, by the chaotic rush of information and speculation, overuse of winking archival footage of commercials and old industrial films, and Brown's charmlessness as a "what's going on?" guide.
Such are the effects of the rushing slipstream of information, and of a solipsism so pronounced that our national fixation is with becoming ever better curated versions of ourselves, that leading the average American man to fashion is hardly the struggle it once was.
