You Can't Help But Wonder

It's understandable to follow the career of a talented person who possesses the ability to inspire you by the mastery of their craft. What then causes people to follow and clamour for people like Paris Hilton or anyone who has ever appeared on reality TV? They have acheived nothing to make them worthy of following them around or being a "fan." Why do people spend their time on people who do nothing more than make empty headed headlines? It makes you wonder how much you can tell about a person by paying attention to their favorites. Have I mentioned I'm a fan of Albert Einstein? 

When Is An Email A Text Message?

If Yahoo! is going to allow email users to send text messages to phones will the users be emailing or texting? Who gets charged what fee? If the person responds are they texting or emailing? If you have a phone with web 2.0 and you use your email via web 2.0 to send a text message to a person with unlimited texting does that mean you sort of have unlimited texting too?