A Model Media Ecologist

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic The final season of Battlestar Galactica has begun and the teaser comme...

Has anyone ever done a cost/benefit analysis of corporate taxes? I'm sure there are accounting tools which would let us estimate how muc...

The current Onion video was written by my son, Alexander. Congress Debates Adding Elaborate Dance To Obama's Inauguration Ceremony

I was on Thom Hartmann's radio program yesterday, discussing the use of cell phones while driving. Thom's position was that regulati...

In honor of Heather Ledger winning the Golden Globe award for best supporting actor in The Dark Knight , I am reposting my piece on The Joke...

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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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

America comes of age.

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