Comments on: who the hell cares http://gapingvoid.com/2005/02/05/who-the-hell-cares/ "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:03:19 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Pegasus News http://gapingvoid.com/2005/02/05/who-the-hell-cares/comment-page-1/#comment-4252 Pegasus News Tue, 08 Feb 2005 07:02:55 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1248#comment-4252 <strong>Belated bullets</strong> Posting the past week has been embarassingly light, a problem compounded by a TypePad glitch over the weekend. Busy, but interesting times. Here's what we've been reading over the past week: Journalism is not stenography. Belated bullets

Posting the past week has been embarassingly light, a problem compounded by a TypePad glitch over the weekend. Busy, but interesting times. Here’s what we’ve been reading over the past week: Journalism is not stenography.

]]> By: John Smith http://gapingvoid.com/2005/02/05/who-the-hell-cares/comment-page-1/#comment-4251 John Smith Sun, 06 Feb 2005 22:26:47 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1248#comment-4251 it's really how much of your soul that you wanna sell to the devil. then again, you're either part of the problem or the solution it’s really how much of your soul that you wanna sell to the devil. then again, you’re either part of the problem or the solution

]]> By: Jon Husband http://gapingvoid.com/2005/02/05/who-the-hell-cares/comment-page-1/#comment-4250 Jon Husband Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:11:01 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1248#comment-4250 According to the book "McLuhan for Managers - New Tools for New Thinking" by Mark Federaman and Derrick de Kerckhove, two of his acolytes: "In McLuhan's world a Medium is anything that extends our mind. It could be a technology or gadget. It could be a new process. Anything we create or build, anything we conceive, any expression of humankind is a McLuhanesque Medium. Media - more than one Medium - can be concrete and tangible or they may be abstract and intangible. ...... What we conventionally conceive of as the media - the press, rado, television, and so forth - are examples of McLuhan's perception of Media, extennding our eyes and ears to the world, expanding the reach of voices and the influence of ideas" (pp. 23-24). So .. for example, Hugh's cards, the Hughtrain, HughMarks are becoming Mediums. Let's keep on keeping on ... cognitively (and emotively) dissociating the corner offices and E-type owners from what's really going on. they'll get it sooner or later .. as H. has said, it's gonna soon become a matter of survival. According to the book “McLuhan for Managers — New Tools for New Thinking” by Mark Federaman and Derrick de Kerckhove, two of his acolytes:
“In McLuhan’s world a Medium is anything that extends our mind. It could be a technology or gadget. It could be a new process. Anything we create or build, anything we conceive, any expression of humankind is a McLuhanesque Medium. Media — more than one Medium — can be concrete and tangible or they may be abstract and intangible. .….. What we conventionally conceive of as the media — the press, rado, television, and so forth — are examples of McLuhan’s perception of Media, extennding our eyes and ears to the world, expanding the reach of voices and the influence of ideas” (pp. 23–24).
So .. for example, Hugh’s cards, the Hughtrain, HughMarks are becoming Mediums.
Let’s keep on keeping on … cognitively (and emotively) dissociating the corner offices and E-type owners from what’s really going on. they’ll get it sooner or later .. as H. has said, it’s gonna soon become a matter of survival.

]]> By: Nathan Dornbrook http://gapingvoid.com/2005/02/05/who-the-hell-cares/comment-page-1/#comment-4249 Nathan Dornbrook Sun, 06 Feb 2005 01:35:13 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1248#comment-4249 Marshall McLuhan said the medium is the message. Sometimes, a specific message becomes a medium. Comic book movie conversions are so common now that they become a medium. Celebrity divorces become a medium through which celebrities or journalists make a statement. This can create a whole mess of cognitive dissonance; Kathy Lee Gifford's attempts to avoid prosecution for owning sweatshops became the medium for a secondary message of how bad sweatshops were, for example. Marshall McLuhan said the medium is the message. Sometimes, a specific message becomes a medium.
Comic book movie conversions are so common now that they become a medium. Celebrity divorces become a medium through which celebrities or journalists make a statement.
This can create a whole mess of cognitive dissonance; Kathy Lee Gifford’s attempts to avoid prosecution for owning sweatshops became the medium for a secondary message of how bad sweatshops were, for example.

]]> By: Laren http://gapingvoid.com/2005/02/05/who-the-hell-cares/comment-page-1/#comment-4248 Laren Sun, 06 Feb 2005 01:02:42 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1248#comment-4248 We are most certainly not staying home more. At least I'm not, and we all know what I trendsetter I am . . . We are most certainly not staying home more. At least I’m not, and we all know what I trendsetter I am …

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