Whither Rotundus?

One of the things that I've been giving some fairly serious thought to lately is what should become of this site, and what sort of changes it might be wise to make. I'm not really sure how many even read this site these days - primarily I've been trying to maintain it as a place for me to think aloud rather than concentrating on trying hard to attract an audience. I'm pretty sure that the site won't disappear - in fact I'm even thinking of upgrading to more flexible hosting to give me more flexibility in some of the non-blog parts of the site that I make a lot of use of. However, what I've been wondering is whether I should be trying to change the structure and style of posts on here.

I came across a post earlier today, arguing that for Christians...

... it might be helpful if we limit the distance between us and the world in a lot of other ways. We don’t have to flaunt our lack of a TV and be weird and preachy about grinding your own grain. That only serves to put unnecessary distance between us and the people we’re trying to reach. Instead, we should try to engage the world around us, know what our neighbors care about, and try to inhabit the same universe they do.

It's pretty hard to be in a higher-tech environment that I'm in now - doing a Ph.D. in Computer Science - but I wonder if the above criticism is misguided, at least in my circumstances. I think that a higher percentage of non-Christians that I know are TV-less than Christians. It's been reported that education and TV viewing are inversely correlated, which might do a lot to explain that.

I cancelled my cable subscription last summer, and haven't regretted it all that much, and now I'm debating how much internet access at home it's worthwhile having. What I've been speculating about lately - a la Nicholas Carr and his article Is Google Making Us Stupid? - is the effect of constant access on my thinking habits. Essentially, it seems to be becoming more difficult to think in a non-fragmented fashion - i.e. I seem to be becoming more scatter-brained as time wears on. Strangely enough the largest source of support for this argument that I've seen seems to be those in the high-tech sector, perhaps because they've been exposed to this more often and likely for longer than their counterparts and may thus have become more aware of the downsides of this style of communication.

Basically I'm thinking that I may try to minimize the number of random link posts - although I may have quite a few to get through prior to having purged the assortment of links that I've got kicking around. A corollary of this might be a decreased frequency of posts on this site at some point in the future. It's a lot easier to make a few brief comments about a number of links than to put together longer, more coherent thoughts.