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Marshall McLuhan opined that a new medium first uses the content of an old medium. For example, the first narrative films imitated theater; the pioneers of photography emulated painting.
Whatever. I’ve been thinking about the blogging which primarily uses the medium of written language, more specifically printed language. It also seems bloggers write in […]

As books on website design for business approach the number of websites, you have to think, “What does this new book have that last year’s book doesn’t?” The short answer is not much. In fact, you can buy a great website design book for…ONE PENNY. For those not in the USA, that is one […]

Sure, you can get great classical literature at Project Gutenberg to download as e-books or even to convert to computer-generated ‘audiobooks’ (although you might not like listening to Ode to a Grecian Urn as interpreted orally by a text-to-voice software program). You can also download real audiofiles (mp3’s, wav’s, etc) from Librivox recordings. {This volunteer-run […]

When Roman Jackobsen identified one of the functions of language as the phatic function, it’s doubtful that he ever imagined that social media would create an environment where people communicate solely for the purpose of communicating.  Bereft of content, or riddled with cliches that render so-called information “redundancy” as Bateson would say, had turned Americans […]

The world wide web is getting more world wide. And if you live in the U.S., you should know about it. Domain names are now available to web subscribers in alphabets other than the standard “latin” alphabet (the one that goes from a to z). Domains are now available in arab script, and will be […]

If you are interested in learning a second (or third) language, never mind Rosetta Stone. Well, you could mind it, but I don’t see much of a point. There is an online service called Mango Languages that offers a full line of language learning interactive material. It can be free. Let me explain. […]