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  Buh-Bye AP

  06.16.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on Buh-Bye AP

  Attribution: NewsGrist It’s stunning that a media company could be so dense, 13 years after the Internet hit the mainstream, to try to control content it is releasing into the public domain. But here we are, in 2008 with the Associated Press doing just that. We had a little problem with attribution (actually theft of […]

• Media, Politics

  Speechless

  05.24.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on Speechless

  My favorite quote in this video? “Kevin, when you find yourself in a hole, it’s often best to stop digging.” This clip shows the level to which political discourse has fallen in the mainstream media. A circus of shouting, ignorance, and insults. It also exposes vividly the way propaganda is being disseminated on both extremes, […]

• Innovation, Media

  Animations in Buenos Aries

  05.21.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Invest seven minutes in watching this video – it’s creative, interesting, and new. It also must have taken months to create when you consider each frame is backed by a mural. I loved the way the music supported the animation (like old Looney Tunes) and how the animation interacted with “real” world components in various […]

• Energy, Media

  Effective Attention Grabbing

  05.17.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  If your target audience is straight and male, then this is a very effective technique: Peak oil is a controversial topic, so Oily Cassandra, good on you. Very effective way to get your target audience to listen. Marshall McLuhan is right, the medium is the message. Now, turning to the actual message, I tend to […]

• Media

  Faux News

  05.05.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on Faux News

  Attribution: fauxnewschannel.com Just when Fox News, the show advertised as “fair and balanced,” seems to be ebbing in influence, we get two more “news” programs that the FCC has inexplicably now termed as news: Fox’s TMZ and the Christian Broadcast Network’s 700 Club. Ever since the 1988 ruling by the FCC that Entertainment Tonight was […]

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