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- Obscurity is an issue we all have to deal with
- Hope & Change: Flipping the F-word & Removing the Old-Fashioned R-word
- I understand that this is very important to you
- Patronizing Patrons Outside Your Own Community vs. Being a Patron Inside Your Own Community
- Automatism + Automaticity – What is my role?
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- Automatism + Automaticity – 20th Century
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- Only Fools Rush in to Build on Top of Closed (Secret, Proprietary) Platforms
- How to make facts
- RE: On Bullshit
- Some Reflections on the Revolution in Propaganda
- The Cooperative Principle in Conversation versus the Prejudice in Silence
- Scripts, Stories, Narratives, Filling in the Gaps without Resorting to Fake News and other Propaganda Techniques
- The Continued Toleration of Illiteracy
- The Rationality of Interdependence vs. Independence (+ Self-Reliance + Inter-Reliance)
- The Rationality of Uncertainty
- The Rationality of Literacy
- It’s Not What You Think It Is
- The Irrationality of Irrationality
- For some, we get lost in media
- What are you going to do about it?
- Should You be Concerned about the Rate of Literacy if Over 99% Are Illiterate?
- The Rationality of Intimacy
- You can reach me at the Internet
- The Rationality of Buzz
- Voluntourism
- Global Languages (and/or Classification Schemes) + Generic Top Level Domains (TLDs)
- Auctions + Markets for Domains, Domain Names + TLDs
- Anti-Dis-Establishment-Arian-Ism + AntiDisInterMediaTion
- The Rationality of Algorithms: Facebook Algorithm, Google Algorithms or No Algorithm at All?
- The Spectre of Populism
- The Unanswered Questions
- The Domain Name is the Medium
- Sign My Guestbook + The Rationality of the Written Word
- The Rationality of Ignorance
- Don’t Listen to One Single Piece of Good Advice — Listen to Many
- Spam Index, Shopping Catalog & Co. – An Introduction to Anti-Social Rationality
- Rational Media + Literacy
- The Big Data Rationality of Large Numbers: Quantitative Statistics + Fanatical Delusions
- The Rationality of Large Numbers
- The Ubiquity of the Text Box (excursus)
- Literacy and Machine Readability: Some First Attempts at a Derivation of the Primary Implications for Rational Media
- Fundamental Principles of Rational Media
- First Essay on Rational Media
- Rational Media, Alternative Media + Mainstream Agendas
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Engagement is Beautiful
One thing many people often forget is that engagement does not describe a status so much as it describes an activity. People who are familiar with my thinking — and even moreso the thinking of the giants I sometimes attempt … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged attention, broadcast, broadcasting, choice, choose, engage, engagement, focus, idea, ideas, language, literacy, measure, measurement, narrowcast, narrowcasting, online engagement, participate, participation
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Focus on Distraction
In many so-called “advanced” economies, there exists today a “common-sense” notion of media… that is based on distraction. The basic idea, based on the work of Edward Bernays, is that we should not cater to a person’s ability to think … Continue reading →
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The Difference Between My Community + My Peeps
A couple of years ago one of my “Facebook Peeps” spoke of her “community” when she actually mentioned her “peeps” (her friends and acquaintances — her people). I was recently reminded of this again when someone said something similar and … Continue reading →
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