Comment Obligatory xkcd (Score 4, Interesting) 507
http://xkcd.com/756/
Mildly related to the summary (the secret hovering remark from this particular comic):
"News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones."