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Doris Lessing, the new Nobel laureate and 88-year-old author used her acceptance speech to disparage the impact of the Internet on our culture. The Internet, "blogging and blugging," Lessing said in her speech, "has seduced a whole generation into its inanities." Got a problem with this take? Let Lessing know on her MySpace page. You won't be the first, of course. As the Times pointed out, since the Guardian published Lessing's speech on December 8, her MySpace friends have gone from 125 to 362 at last count. Perhaps they're curious about "blugging." Is that anything like "krunking"?