A Model Media Ecologist

Updated below In conjunction of the Associated Press’s report that Dick Cheney has been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, here is my sligh...

The recent Pakistani constitutional crises provides me with an opportunity to reiterate some political observations concerning our own democ...

If you look to the left you'll notice that my sitemeter has just registered my 1000th visitor. Whoever you are, if you contact me offlin...

I'm taking a brief respite (or am I giving my readers a brief respite?) from my reviews of past postings to ask an important mass cultur...

(Updated below) Well, according to my blog host's count, I haven't posted 68 entries to this blog, I've posted 89 (including the...

Well, according to the archive list below and to the left of this post, I've penned 68 entries to this blog since I started it in Decemb...

A few thoughts about Dan Rather's heroic (Quixotic?) assault on CBS. The recent $70M lawsuit brought by Dan Rather against CBS is being...

As the New York Times attempts to navigate the unfamiliar waters of the internet, they risk "swimming with the fishes." Today the ...

Once upon a time there were three Bears who lived in a beautiful little house on the edge of the wood. They were the Papa Bear, the Mama Bea...

The ancient notion of internal organs as cognitive resources has resurfaced in Claudia Dreyfus’s New York Times article, “Through Analysis, ...

Recent iPhone/AT&T news suggests additional ways to liberate old technology. In his New York Times article published this week, Brad Sto...

Vestigial elements of past cultures persist within our own and affect our public discourse and our artistic creations. This notion is the ba...

Instant messages are too new to be considered an art form, but the time is near when we should begin to see additions to our culture using I...

I have my own spin on the transition of the television news from "hard news" to "infotainment." What we call “news,” whi...

Educators rush to adopt new technologies into their curricula. Shouldn't we ask what unintended consequences accompany new ways of commu...

Some reactions to my recent post concerning the similarities between myth and advertising, with my response below: Duane writes: I was with ...