New developments in media and technology are often ignored and dismissed as passing fads, only to change the paradigm of how people work, live, and communicate. Time has shown that media and technology are inherently tied to progress. Time has also shown that those who ignore the evolution of communication mediums are destined to play catch [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Writing'
Why Dismissing Twitter is Short-Sighted
All Atwitter: So In, They’re Out
Leave to New York Times writer Virginia Heffernan to remind us of the delicious Emily Dickinson poem about the bliss of nonconformity – and tie it all back to the twittering classes -
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – Too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – [...]
Blogojevich’s Misreading of Tennyson
On December 19, now former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich held his first press conference to fend off the charges of corruption that federal prosecutors had brought against him, pledging, “I will fight, I will fight, I will fight until I take my last breath.”He famously though somewhat enigmatically concluded that public appearnce by reciting some [...]