A Hung-Over Rant about Verizon
I was greeted this morning by that familiar throbbing head that always hangs around after a night of being able to drink adult beverages. It over-stayed its welcome… Then when […]
Category Archives: Media Literacy
Concrete and Abstract Ideas
One of my favorite lessons to teach has to be about concrete and abstract nouns. It’s not that it’s this super-complicated concept or anything; I think it has to do […]
Cognitive Surplus and Narrative Architecture
How many times have you gone online to look for a bit of info on how to take down that last boss, find all of those steel ingots in Fallout, […]
Thursday? More like Awesome-day. or something clever. er.
Community fans rejoice: it’s Thursday. I sometimes sit around and think about Community when it’s not on. Whether or not that’s a “good” thing is beyond me. I am the […]
Apple and Publishers: What Went Wrong? (a beginner’s theoretical guide)
Let’s pretend for a second that I don’t know everything there is to know about macroeconomics (done). Let’s also pretend that I don’t care about Apple and the Big Six […]
Who’s to Blame for Used Prices?
According to the rumor mills, the next round of video game systems will prevent the play of used games (go here or here or here for some of those rumors; […]
Fiction as Brain Food
This weekend, the NY Times ran an op/ed piece titled “Your Brain on Fiction” by Annie Murphy Paul (online version here). It was a fascinating article, and if you haven’t […]
New Media and Old Thoughts
A while back, I posted this article about consumerism and its effect on the individual. I got a couple of personal email responses from it, one from a lady who […]
Social Media, Community, and the Inspector Spacetime Narrative Womb
As we move into today’s extremely complicated and nuanced world of entertainment, infotainment, and e-ducation, it’s always fascinating to see how some of the older laws of the land are […]
Branded Amazon stores: future inevitability?
I read an article from Publisher’s Weekly this morning about how DC was going to launch its own branded storefront on Amazon’s site. If you don’t feel like reading the […]
