tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.comments2023-06-26T06:26:54.062-05:00A Model Media EcologistRobert K. Blechmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12552295127347803870noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-22643702835792575332017-01-16T16:49:57.397-05:002017-01-16T16:49:57.397-05:00Thanks Owen! If you could do me one more favor, pl...Thanks Owen! If you could do me one more favor, please post your kind comments to my Amazon page. Thanks again. http://amzn.to/2iClZv6Robert K. Blechmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12552295127347803870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-23065285111351602442017-01-16T16:37:28.247-05:002017-01-16T16:37:28.247-05:00"I Tweet, Therefore I am" is genius! I c..."I Tweet, Therefore I am" is genius! I cannot think of another way to connect the current, younger population to an incredibly thrilling story better then to put it right on the things they are connected to the most, technology. Many parents and teachers struggle at times to get their children/students to sit down and read a book. In today's day and age, so many of us are consumed by the technology in our lives such as the phones in our pockets, the computers with too much power connecting us to Netflix from all around the world, and the tablets that allow us to create projects while having music playing in another application so when we step back, how can we expect our children to do what, even we, cannot? This is the realization that so many of us are coming to and there have only been so many alternatives that actually work. <br /><br />Robert K. Blechman recognized these problems and as an author, when the age of paper books is slowly changing to Amazon Kindles and Apple iPads, he found a way to meet these overly connected people with an incredible, mystery story in the most unique, yet effective way possible. Knowing how overly connected the younger population is with social media, he posted his novel via real-time tweets on twitter and it was a major success. So much so, that Amazon just launched the story through their booking department today, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, to further connect with people.<br /><br />Looking at the most basic concepts of Marketing, the idea is that someone/some group with a product attempts to satisfy the needs of possible customers and in the process, succeeds in addressing their own needs as a person/organization. Robert K. Blechman hit the nail right on the head. He understood the struggle that people have with sitting down and reading a book, but also that we have never been as connected through technology then we are today so he met right in the middle and put his product in the hands of the reader, literally. Blechman has pioneered the way authors can connect to readers first-hand and did it in a way that, until today, did not benefit himself financially. My favorite part is that when readers are at home, they only can react to what has happened and speculate on what will come with themselves but now all readers can share their opinions with one another, which makes the experience more interactive and engaging. <br /><br />Looking at the long-term effectiveness of a novel, so uniquely connected as this one, it is hard to say how well it will work and if others will try to follow in Blechman’s path. Initially, the concept sounds interesting and unique, given how society is today, but connecting through twitter could be limiting and/or problematic. I would not think that stories that typically connect with the older population would have nearly as much success as “I Tweet, Therefore I am”, because the older population typically is not as technologically connected in comparison to the younger population. These limitation may lead to authors who are attempting to connect to a wider age to steer away from this new style of storytelling.<br />Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16475452982864325558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-83968413753808911632011-10-30T08:51:52.351-05:002011-10-30T08:51:52.351-05:00Finally getting round to creating some tetrads on ...Finally getting round to creating some tetrads on current and past mediums… I'm working on the Occupy movement as a twist to the anti-capitalism agenda where the occupation of your home town takes over from an attack on the buildings of capitalist corporations… Your blog seems to have inspired me… Thank youdilemma dilemmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16304827416682732019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-11937418253883976902011-09-05T23:18:39.472-05:002011-09-05T23:18:39.472-05:00I like where you're going. I think there's...I like where you're going. I think there's a fine, blurry line between Secondary Orality and Secondary Literacy and I'm not sure where one ends and the other begins. Twitter has a conversational, almost real time quality, but is limited by the abstraction of electronic print. Of all the digital environments, it seems to stand the closest to whatever line exists between the two. Blogs move closer to traditional literacy. Good stuff to chew on.Mike Plughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08180838171989998353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-66894561754419198372010-12-03T14:41:36.722-05:002010-12-03T14:41:36.722-05:00Thanks for your comment!Thanks for your comment!Robert K. Blechmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12552295127347803870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-1030049287574857532010-11-14T16:15:59.650-05:002010-11-14T16:15:59.650-05:00I've been trying to find a useful (read: empi...I've been trying to find a useful (read: empirical) application for McLuhan's tetrad and your post makes a wonderful argument for bolstering the tetrad with Strauss' work. Thank you for the connection of the two. Well written, supported, and considered. Cheers!AJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08452075662316027870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-5555883793468882352010-02-19T14:05:18.489-05:002010-02-19T14:05:18.489-05:00Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your ol...Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now. Keep it up! <br />And according to this article, I totally agree with your opinion, but only this time! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-66891362735466035202010-01-02T19:47:15.392-05:002010-01-02T19:47:15.392-05:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Robert K. Blechmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12552295127347803870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-67124513634874176532009-12-04T00:10:38.767-05:002009-12-04T00:10:38.767-05:00I wouldn't worry about it. Camille's blog ...I wouldn't worry about it. Camille's blog yabbered on and on and kept changing subject so many times, I doubt that many people saw her comments on Claude Levi-Strauss buried in the middle. I only knew they were there because you pointed it out. :-)Jeanette Bennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12976487055723238180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-14824936264088584922009-11-19T13:29:50.322-05:002009-11-19T13:29:50.322-05:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-18411014641353416782009-11-19T13:14:42.197-05:002009-11-19T13:14:42.197-05:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Robert K. Blechmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12552295127347803870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-46448306200795090982009-11-18T22:52:50.503-05:002009-11-18T22:52:50.503-05:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-43239691089098500032009-11-05T05:26:10.731-05:002009-11-05T05:26:10.731-05:00Very nice posting.... it's a simply super... ...Very nice posting.... it's a simply super... <a href="http://www.itemplatez.com" rel="nofollow"> easy to download </a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-45186729878348794152009-11-03T06:46:12.305-05:002009-11-03T06:46:12.305-05:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15888732615181532548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-21093378267952311272009-10-27T10:09:04.290-05:002009-10-27T10:09:04.290-05:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15888732615181532548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-60923524772791187322009-10-06T09:51:47.976-05:002009-10-06T09:51:47.976-05:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15888732615181532548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-33243348176853570902009-09-17T10:23:29.914-05:002009-09-17T10:23:29.914-05:00Cookiemouse wanna be a new new media megstar!Cookiemouse wanna be a new new media megstar!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15888732615181532548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-20719265524951437652009-08-22T09:30:22.910-05:002009-08-22T09:30:22.910-05:00Hope ya found that pot of gold.Hope ya found that pot of gold.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15888732615181532548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-81674673931948579982009-07-25T07:01:38.019-05:002009-07-25T07:01:38.019-05:00Sir, I enjoyed your witty critique.
It was a disa...Sir, I enjoyed your witty critique.<br /><br />It was a disappointoing ending.<br /><br />However, the death and return of a hero is a popular theme in mythology from all around the world.<br /><br />One example from the Norse 'Edda' and the 'Lay of Kara' should suffice:<br />"Sigrun was early dead of sorrow and grief. It was believed in olden times that people were born again, but that is now called old wives' folly. Of Helgi and Sigrun it is said that they were born again; he became Helgi Haddingjaskati, and she Kara the daughter of Halfdan, as is told in the Lay of Kara, and she was a Valkyrie"<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation<br /><br />Starbuck aka Kara Thrace<br /><br />Galactica clearly had mythological pretensions which at times sat uncomfortably with the attempted gritty realism of military & political life.<br /><br />The loose ends posed some interesting imaginative exercises and it was more fun imagining what the end might be than actually viewing it...<br /><br />In the end, I think Galactica is what we make it, the tale can be told and retold in different versions and in this sense resembles a myth more that a modern literary work.AGHOSTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-30170588626272424642009-07-21T11:45:26.324-05:002009-07-21T11:45:26.324-05:00Great poem thanks Robert.Great poem thanks Robert.robbwindowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01814028888863377086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-65429971969278632822009-07-09T09:03:52.514-05:002009-07-09T09:03:52.514-05:00Interesting discussion with a number of strong poi...Interesting discussion with a number of strong points. In our patriarchal, "warrior" societies, behaviors are built upon survival strategies, most often to escape the brute force of male "gangs". Such "male" power is used as much to winnow the ranks of redundant populations as it is used to subjugate and colonize. Faced with such "corporate power", women have recourse to their own corporate stragies. <br /><br />To call "lipstick" a cultural artifact however, thus raising women above the give and take of gender relations, is to over-simplify this behavior.<br /><br />I'm not sure I would agree with Claude Levi-Strauss or at least with your reading of the culture-nature dichotomy, to say that lipstick is merely a differenciating cultural appendage. I think such "cultural" strategems are more a matter of survival explained as culture.<br /><br />In any case I have just dug out a copy of CLS' <i>Myth and Meaning</i> and Pierre Bourdieu's <i>Sur la télévision</i> for a little "lite" summer reading.<br /><br />Unfortunately, since I would not qualify as a "regular reader", your friend <i>artiefacts</i> will find little comfort in my agreeing with you that the use of lipstick does not a pitbull make. I suspect however, that on another level we would all agree that feminism is a social problem, not ontological. <br /><br />Good luck and "à bientôt".P. Gillespiehttp://www.gnmco.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-41381748808347233422009-06-01T13:40:33.927-05:002009-06-01T13:40:33.927-05:00That made my day! I love the angry look in their e...That made my day! I love the angry look in their eyes.<br />Thanks, <br />Steve in Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaCSBWebEditor Steve Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11652467309641541148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-69993262846380717802009-04-08T09:41:00.000-05:002009-04-08T09:41:00.000-05:00What's not to applaud?What's not to applaud?Robert K. Blechmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12552295127347803870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-20126549368345628192009-04-06T17:27:00.000-05:002009-04-06T17:27:00.000-05:00Applause! And then more applause!Applause! And then more applause!Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13331693555736088798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400219950927941208.post-27929982550292498812009-04-06T13:36:00.000-05:002009-04-06T13:36:00.000-05:00What's not to love?What's not to love?Robert K. Blechmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12552295127347803870noreply@blogger.com