This conversation, I believe, is talking a few levels above those it’s talking about. It’s not this complicated. This is an age of interactivity. Everything must allow for a staggering amount of user control. Computers come in different colors, telephones plan your schedule, palm pilots play your music and so forth. The critical part of […]

Wilkinson mentioned “controlling the dialogue”. Right there, he taps into the most consequential split between blogs and traditional media. For the politician, blogs are absolutely uncontrollable; they are an intrinsically chaotic medium with a penchant to move towards all out conflict. The informal, almost personalized feeling of blogs creates a different reaction in the viewer […]

There is an idea floating around, a “meme” if you will, that by creating his own news media and adapting everything to his tastes, Oliver destroys the concept of a public space. Replicated on a generational scale, it will lead to towering isolation. I must disagree. The concept of public space is finally being fulfilled […]

Progress moves in fits and starts, it never totally fulfills the expectations of the trailblazers and rarely remains in the boundaries set by its detractors. Explaining why traditional print media is a “Good Thing” is fighting a battle that’s already been lost. Those who like print media will stay with it, the critical move now […]

8:12 AM (though I’ve been up since 7AM, college students aren’t used to this!) and our intrepid organizers are desperately trying to get us started. Whoops, there go the lights. Guess they’re serious now. Take your seats guys, I’m sitting too close to the door for them to release the dogs…