In the spring of 2008, hordes of people descended on the city of San Francisco for a gathering that some might call a trade expo. This term is slightly misleading, because the Web 2.0 Expo is not necessarily focused on a single trade or segment of the media industry like other media industry trade expos [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Media’
Clay Shirky and Cognitive Surplus
Posted in Media, tagged clay shirky, cognitive surplus, Media on August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A 1945 Prophet??
Posted in History, Media, tagged early computers, Media on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am amazed by the fact that credit cards and electronic payment systems, personal computers, and the need for associative informational retrieval and search systems were talked about in 1945 by this guy. You can read Vannevar Bush’s article “As We May Think” in its entirety here. I’m also amazed by the [...]
On Descartes’ Optics
Posted in Media, Philosophy, tagged descartes, Media, optics, Philosophy on February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a response that I wrote to a classmate’s post on my class discussion board, but I thought I’d post it here as well just to get the brain juice-a-flowin’! We were discussing Descartes’ scientific writings, and were talking about a section he wrote on optics: I appreciate your honesty about your struggle [...]
Beware the Image and the Text
Posted in Media, tagged image, mead-hall, Media, text on February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Beware the image and the text. Beware the text, for it can “make the weaker argument appear the stronger” (Plato’s Apology) through the enthymeme and the wily rhetoritician. Beware also the image, because through repetition and the strength of the sense of vision, it can have a curious side effect to those who are not [...]
A Brave New World…
Posted in Christianity, Media, tagged distopia, evil, Media, utopia on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Many people have written about the future. Aldous Huxley and George Orwell are but two of the writers who chose to write about the dystopia, a trope that is remarkably effective in its ironic and satiric presentation of human folly. I have recently been thinking about how people perceive evil in the world and how [...]
Joe the Plumber gums up the works
Posted in Christianity, Media, tagged Joe the Plumber, Media, Politics, Sheppard Smith, words on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t been posting political items in this blog very much, and while this news clip is definately about the political campaign and the manic postures that are being adopted by people, I’m posting it here to point out something larger than politics. Sound bites and aphorisms are unfortunately some of the most significant modes [...]
When the Commodity and the Ad Are One
Posted in Media, tagged halo, Halo video, Media on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you have not seen anything of Halo, you should look at some of my other posts for some machinima videos before you watch this one. This is a short film made to publicize Halo 3. The flashy parts are interesting, like actually seeing a real Warthog or seeing a Halo sniper rifle or Brutes [...]
Complexity
Posted in Media, tagged complexity, halo, Media, revolution, video gaming on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The world is undergoing a revolution. In fact, it isn’t irrational to claim that ever since the invention of the telegraph, the world has been undergoing one massive media revolution composed of many smaller revolutions. With each extension of our bodies (as McLuhan defines a medium), we reconfigure ourselves—we reconstruct the ways our minds view reality, and [...]
