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Tag Archives: communication
Patronizing Patrons Outside Your Own Community vs. Being a Patron Inside Your Own Community
One of my good friends (the kind that actually try to push back on the kinds of things I often say) has been hammering away for some time at my attitude – sort of calling it patronizing. I beg to … Continue reading
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Tagged ad, ads, advertisement, advertisements, advertising, advertising industry, attitude, audience, closed, communication, communications, communities, community, express, expressed, expression, expressions, free speech, group, groups, illiteracy, illiterate, in-group, language, languages, linguistic communities, linguistic community, literacy, literate, mean, meaning, means, mutual, negotiation, negotiation of meaning, open, out-group, participate, participating, participation, patron, patronage, patronise, patronize, patrons, propaganda, rational media, read, reader, readers, reading, relationship, relationships, retard media, target, target audience, targets, understanding, write, writer, writers, writing
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Automatism + Automaticity – 20th Century
If you thought my previous introduction was dark, then if you use your imagination a little to color in the details of what comes next, then you may actually begin to lose your faith in humanity – but I choose … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, ad, ads, advertising, algorithm, algorithmic, algorithms, automate, automatic, Automaticity, automation, Automatism, capital, communication, community, development, economic, economics, economy, employ, employee, employment, free to choose, free will, Greta Thunberg, human, humane, humanism, humanity, industrial, industry, Karl Marx, labor, legacy, Malcolm Gladwell, marketing, Marx, Marxist, media, media industry, money, output, Pavlov, Pavlov dog, Pavlov dogs, production, profit, profits, Regarding the Pain of Others, research, science, scientific, search, search algorithm, search algorithms, stranger, strangers, Susan Sontag, talk, talking, Talking to Strangers, work
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Some Reflections on the Revolution in Propaganda
More or less exactly ten generations after Edmund Burke’s treatise concerning the French Revolution and roughly about twenty generations after the invention of Gutenberg’s printing press, I would like to give you a small update on the state of news, … Continue reading
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Tagged analysis, authority, bias, biology, brand, brand name, brand names, branding, brands, communication, communications, data, distrust, distrustworthy, document, documentation, documents, enterprise, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial, entrepreneurs, evolution, fake, gatekeeper, homo sapiens, human, humanity, humans, information, information and communications technology, internet, language, meaning, online, open, ordinary language, plain language, plain talk, private, propaganda, public, publication, publish, publisher, publishers, publishing, rational, rationality, real, reason, religion, revolution, transparency, transparent, trust, trustworthiness, trustworthy, vernacular, writing, written
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Reading, Writing + Communications
Five centuries ago (more or less, depending on when you actually read this), Martin Luther nailed his famous 95 Theses to the church door. In the weeks, months and years that followed, one of the most influential publications of the … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, author, communication, communications, computer literacy, development, digital literacy, economic development, ICT, information and communications technology, language, literacy, media literacy, natural language, online literacy, publish, publisher, publishing, reader, readers, reading, software development, target, target audience, targeted, targeting, technology, Wordpress development, writer, writers, writing
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Mobile First is a Special Case of Reading First
Several years ago, there was a push towards “mobile first” publishing – the idea being that more and more people were using their mobile phones as their primary reading device. The optimization of web content for constraints inherent in mobile … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, blogger, bloggers, blogging, blogs, communication, communications, consume, consumer, consumers, consumption, design, development, engagement, join, joining, literacy, participation, post, posting, produce, producer, producers, production, publishing, read, reading, software, write, writing
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For some, we get lost in media
I opened up a copy of the New York Times today, and in an empty space within an article, there was a blurb that reads Social networks put individuals at the center of their own media universes — I am … Continue reading
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Tagged action, activity, actualization, common, communication, communications, community, engage, engagement, identity, individual, individuals, interaction, language, market, marketing, marketplace, marketplaces, media, real, self-actualization, share, shared, sharing, social media, social network, social networks, virtual
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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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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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