A Model Media Ecologist

Musings on technology and culture by a disciple of Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman and Claude Lévi-Strauss

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Blogger of the Year

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Update Below: A stunning visual to help you donate more Update II below: We don't seem to have the hang of this donation thing. Every ye...
Sunday, December 14, 2008

Glenn Greenwald on the Rule of Law

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As in many other blogs this weekend I would like to call attention to Glenn Greenwald's interview on Bill Moyer's Journal which aire...
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Saturday, December 6, 2008

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In a message dated 12/04/08 18:46:39 Eastern Standard Time, Lance Strate writes: "I'm not sure if you absolutely have to have a sen...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Rating The Internet

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Seven words that you can never say on TV but are OK on the internet When I seek out entertainment, I depend on the various ratings organizat...
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Friday, November 28, 2008

Happy 100th Birthday Claude Lévi-Strauss!

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Here is my quick take on Claude Lévi-Strauss's contribution to Media Ecology: His approach to the interpretation of so-called "prim...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Television's "Good News"

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University of Maryland study finds television causes unhappiness. There is a posting in Tuesday's Canada.com entertainment section conc...
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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Google Searches Can Also Track Intellectual Outbreaks

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Simple steps to avoid an epidemic of Media Ecology. An article in yesterday's New York Times discusses how Google queries can anticipat...
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Sunday, November 9, 2008

I'm Binding My Time

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'Cause that's the kind of guy I'm. Lance Strate has posted the program for this coming weekend's Institute of General Semant...
Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Claude Lévi-Strauss Celebrates his 100th Birthday This Month!

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Yes, Claude Lévi-Strauss is still alive and will celebrate his 100th birthday in a few weeks. Beyond his well-known scholarly accomplishment...
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

President Barack Obama

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America comes of age.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Things Come in Fours

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Some unabashed shameless self-promotion ensues. If you happen to be in New York City on the weekend starting November 14 (which coincidental...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up?

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To our extra-terrestrial visitors: Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, alien, were no crime. Today, October 14, 2008, is the fu...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Robinson Crusoe Faces Retirement

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Having been cast away in my wretched condition for the better part of seven and forty years, as best I could reckon by my calendar post, I f...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

A Good Reason to Give Bush a Third Term

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Economists Warn Anti-Bush Merchandise Market Close To Collapse Full Disclosure: My son suggested the idea for this video.
Saturday, September 20, 2008

Shock and Awe, Financial Division

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In her book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism , Naomi Klein documents how the Republican Neocons have perfected the use of...
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Friday, September 19, 2008

The Elementary Structures of Political Kinship

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There have been some questions concerning my previous post where I suggested that John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his running ...
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