The Judge banged his gavel for attention.  He needed the Court to remain focused long enough for him to finish up.  He’d already said twice that he had an end-of-auction to catch on eBay. He turned to the stenographer—whose thumbs were frantically texting updates to the Court's homepage. Good, at least he was alert.

"The defendant," the Judge said, "has been found guilty of the willful act of non-blogging.  For the crime of keeping secrets from Google, the defendant is hereby sentenced to two years of You-Tube ridicule and another six months of plagiarizing jokes into chain emails."

We the jury ignored the in-court spectacle.  We had moved on.  Instead, ten of us were dutifully typing on laptops; keeping friends and family updated; another was arranging a meeting with her online e-ball-&-chain.com match; and I was IMing invitations to the attorneys to get them to join my MySpace network.