Movie Clappboard Grassroots action Now

Knowledge without Zeal

We live in some pretty extraordinary times as far as technology is concerned. To think we hold more technology in our hands via our cell phones than what they had when a man landed on the moon is crazy.

Read more

The Melding of News and Entertainment

The Melding of News and Entertainment … This May Not be Helpful

Former news co-anchor Robert MacNeil describes the features of successful news programs this way. Keep everything brief. Do not strain the attention of anyone. Instead, you must provide constant stimulation. To that end networks use variety, novelty, action, and movement.

Read more

Quotes

Notable Quote

Emphasis mine: The Internet is having a bit of fun with Rand Paul’s claim during a Tuesday Senate committee hearing that “We shouldn’t presume that a group of experts somehow knows what’s best” (here’s Tommy Beer with more). After all, they’re the experts. Shouldn’t we get out of the way and do as the experts tell … Read more

Quotes

Notable Quote – a warning to the NH GOFFER Commission

…which has been tasked on “restarting” the NH economy by “planning” how to “reopen” our economy. George Will: Markets produce many things secondarily, from shoes to trucks to novels, but primarily they produce information, in torrents that no government is intelligent enough to comprehend or nimble enough to respond to. Sure, Government can infringe, hinder, … Read more

media spoon feeding

Twenty Years of Communications Change

The majority of the recent change is the result of advances in communications inter-connectivity. The ability of people to get a lot of information for free is very recent. Was this one of the biggest tactical blunders in history? Was this decision to give away access to knowledge for free a mistake?

Read more

Share to...