Mea Culpa, Steve Maich

I made a major mistake yesterday. I wrote a post about an article in Maclean's magazine called “The Internet Sucks” that I didn't read. Instead, I based my post on the views of someone else – Shane Schick – who had read it. Not surprisingly, the story's author, Steve Maich, who I worked with at the National Post, called me on it. Guilty as charged. So, I'm going to do something I've never done before: buy a copy of Maclean's. Then, I'm going to write another post based on my own thoughts. I've also invited Steve to write a guest post about his thinking.
Update: I still haven't found the Maclean's story online but there is a press release with this intro: “After 15 years and a trillion dollars of investment, just about everything we've been told about the Internet and the information age has come up short. Instead of the promised enlightened utopia built on mutual understanding, we have constructed a virtual Wild West where the masses indulge their darkest vices, pirates of all kinds troll for victims, and the rest of us have come to accept that cyberspace isn't the kind of place you'd want to raise your kids.”