I think it's worth noting that most of those stories are random blog sites, which are kind of allowed (expected?) to post stupid, sensationalist stuff fairly regularly. The WIRED article was a cover story on a major technology publication, and went beyond opinion and used a totally misleading graph ( http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/17/is-the-web-really-de.ht... ). The WIRED article is a few levels above those links in terms of stupidity.