No question we live in a world of ever expanding media opportunities. From the AP: The Global Language Monitor, which scans the Internet for the use of specific words or phrases using Roman characters, found 35,000 new stories on the pope in the 24 hours after his death Saturday. I did a search on “Pope” at Technorati and got over 85,000 hits (over 21,000 when searching for “Pope death”). Conclusions: 1) the Pope was clearly an important (and well talked about) person 2) the proliferation of media continues