The Internet Hasn't Made Us Smarter

From Wired: Despite the Web, Americans Remain Woefully Ill-Informed
Not much to be surprised about here... after all, over 30% of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was personally involved in 9/11 as of September of last year, despite the conclusions of the 9/11 Commission Report to the contrary. Although the Internet has done a lot to improve opportunities for education, it depends on the willingness of people to seek out new sources.
There is some hope for the Web; for example, Americans reading major newspaper web sites did best on a poll of knowledge about current events, even better than readers of daily print newspapers or network news. But the Internet isn't all it's cracked up to be--people reading news blogs did only slightly better than network news viewers.
Of course, the Daily Show / Colbert Report ranked second on the list... but I would guess a lot of that is due to correlated factors, since Daily Show viewers tend to consume other media as well...