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The Blogging Community: English Only? A twist on Marshall McLuhan’s Theory

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

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 […]

Great book on website design: one penny!!! No kidding

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

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 […]

The rise of phatic communication - social media and the emptiness of meaning by Alan Gerstle

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

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 […]

Why is it many social media are developed by college students?

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Because they are bored.