I'm unsurprised that the readers here latched right on to the tools mentioned in the article, and entirely missed the point of his statements: > ...politicians

I'm unsurprised that the readers here latched right on to the tools mentioned in the article, and entirely missed the point of his statements: > ...politicians should be encouraging the public to put these technological advances to good use. This is exactly his point. He used a few devices to hi-lite the difference between information-as-entertainment, and information-as-a-tool. This in no way makes him hypocritical for being constantly connected to a Blackberry; he's using the device in exactly the way that he's urging young graduates to use going forward. (It may make him a little hypocritical for his campaign machine, though.) I think he's right. I think he's being proven right all the time by sites like Reddit, which were supposed to democratize the news, except that instead they repeatedly become a megaphone for internet tough guy squads and get hyped over issues where they don't have all the facts. Or like HackerNews, where daring to mention some high-tech devices causes everyone to completely miss the actual point of an argument.