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Media Schmedia

Big Media vs. Cookie Monster: Open Video & Sharing

February 10, 2010

Some of you may have heard me complaining lately that I want to attend SXSW this year, but cannot for a variety of reasons – mostly limited funds.  Well, Open Video Alliance is holding a contest for a 60-second video, expressing “what open video means to you.”  My solution was to juxtapose media giants (Murdoch, Valenti) to [...]

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Media Hot & Cold Revisted

November 30, 2009
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My reaction to Eduardo Navas’ excellent article posted on Remix Theory, about how McLuhan’s ideas about “Hot & Cold” media apply to a contemporary media landscape that is vastly different from the milieux in which McLuhan was writing in the 60’s.

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De-douching America

August 2, 2009
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This weekend, I’m catching up on my Daily Shows & Colbert Reports that I missed while in SF. I just watched Wednesday’s Daily Show, and was blown away by “So You Think You Can Douche”, taking on the talking heads on cable news networks. It’s not that it was so much better than the typical Daily Show bit, but just that it seemed to encapsulate perfectly the ways in which TDS is an essential corrective to today’s media.

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