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What are you going to do about it?
I have a friend who works in the field of healthcare, and we were talking about corruption in the medical and pharmaceutical industries – the kind that leads to patients getting misdiagnosed and mistreated. I had shared something I had … Continue reading
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Tagged ad, ads, advertise, advertisement, advertising, alternative currencies, alternative currency, anonymity, anonymous, authentic, authenticity, bond, brand, brand name, brand names, branding, brands, care, careless, cash, construct, construction, constructs, engage, engagement, failure, identity, meaning, meaningful, meaningless, money, power, rational media, relationship, relationships, retard media, social, social construct, social construction, social constructs, social engagement, social system, social systems, society, success, successful, system, systems, trace
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Should You be Concerned about the Rate of Literacy if Over 99% Are Illiterate?
When people were living in caves, probably most of them didn’t create cave paintings. Certainly none of them spoke English – and the alphabet hadn’t even been invented yet. The rate of literacy was without the shadow of a doubt … Continue reading
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Tagged controversial, controversy, development, evolution, illiteracy, illiterate, law, literacy, literate, natural language, natural law, nature, rational media, retard media
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The Rationality of Intimacy
I can imagine many people might think the title of this post means it will be all about love, sex and such. Well, not exactly. It’s about relationships – but not merely limited to the exclusive kind of relationship two … Continue reading
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Tagged algorithm, algorithmic, algorithms, artificial intelligence, close, closeness, community, computer, context, contexts, dialect, distance, distant, express, expressed, expression, expressions, human, humanity, humans, information, information retrieval, intimacy, intimate, jargon, language, region, regional, relationship, relationships, search, topic, topical
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You can reach me at the Internet
People who say stuff like „you can reach me at“ this or that URL – and then even name a URL they don’t manage themselves – are quite disingenuous… or even just plain outright bogus. No, I can’t reach you … Continue reading
The Rationality of Buzz
It’s early on a Monday morning – I would say “bright and early”, but it’s so early that the sun is still nowhere in sight. At any rate, the week is about to begin and so I figure it’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged ad, ads, advertisement, advertisements, advertising, buzz, conditioning, consumer, consumers, fact, facts, habit, habits, history, internet, literacy, media, news, news publisher, news publishers, Pavlov, printing press, propaganda, psychology, publish, published, publisher, publishers, publishing, retard media, technology
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Voluntourism
In a recent podcast episode, Eliza Rubin mentioned „voluntourism“ (see episode #28 for her explanation of the term). Here, I want to apply the concept to the web / internet / online space – so basically: virtual voluntourism. In my … Continue reading
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Tagged brand, brand name, brand names, brands, fan, fanatical, fans, follow, leading, like, retard media, social media, voluntourism
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Global Languages (and/or Classification Schemes) + Generic Top Level Domains (TLDs)
Whereas traditional classification schemes (such as the Dewey Decimal Classification [DDC] or the Library of Congress classification scheme [LC]) have primarily been oriented towards topical segmentation of publications published by individual persons or corporate entities, I feel it is now … Continue reading
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Tagged biz, classification, com, communication, communications, DDC, description, descriptions, descriptive, Dewey, Dewey Decimal, Dewey Decimal Classification, domain, domains, edu, generic, gov, info, language, languages, LC, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Classification, museum, name, net, org, prescriptive, pro, proprietary, registries, registry, scheme, schemes, segment, segmentation, segments, speculation, speculative, tel, TLD, TLDs, top level domain, top level domains, travel, type, types, typology
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Auctions + Markets for Domains, Domain Names + TLDs
Several years ago, one of my friends (who is not a „domainer“ per se) made a very insightful remark… – a remark that I have carried around with me ever since and also pondered over all this time (and indeed, … Continue reading
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Tagged auction, auction price, data, domain, domain name, domain names, domains, generic, generic domain, generic domains, market, market price, metric, metrics, premium, premium price, price, price discrimination, pricing, proprietary, proprietary domain, proprietary domains, proprietor, reliability, reliable, TLD, TLDs, valid
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Anti-Dis-Establishment-Arian-Ism + AntiDisInterMediaTion
In this post, I plan to give you a small insight into some of the marketing / branding ideas I developed for this blog. One of the BIG IDEA moments behind „remediary“ is simply that antidisintermediation is nothing other than … Continue reading
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Tagged brand, branding, business goal, business goals, business people, collaborate, collaboration, collaborative, digital literacy, goal, goals, intermediary, intermediation, language, literacy, media, media literacy, mediation, natural language, networking, online literacy, people, rational media
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The Rationality of Algorithms: Facebook Algorithm, Google Algorithms or No Algorithm at All?
If you could choose any of the following three options, which one would you pick? Facebook Algorithm Google Algorithms No Algorithm whatsoever Granted: You probably have more choices than that – I’m just trying to keep it simple (stupid 😉 … Continue reading
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Tagged algorithm, algorithmic, algorithms, brand name, brand names, censor, censored, censorship, communicate, communication, connect, connected, connection, connections, content, Facebook, filter, filtered, Google, identification, identifier, identifiers, identy, intellectual property, language, media, name, names, natural language, open, publish, publisher, publishers, publishing, rational media, share, sharing, trademark, trademarks
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