My persistent followers (stalkers?) may have noticed by now (hopefully?) that I publish many blogs (I don’t actually count them, and sometimes I even forget that I maintain so many of them). Luckily, WordPress has a neato feature — I guess it’s an RSS feed tied to everything a WP user publishes — the feed… Continue reading I Want to Say Goo-Goo-Ga-Joob
Community Information versus Milieu Information
Since I have been writing about information, language, communities and milieus for quite some time, and since other people have also recently been increasingly commenting more on a wide variety of related issues, I’ve decided I should focus my attention on an insight that just happened to me in an “AHA!” sort of way. I… Continue reading Community Information versus Milieu Information
Technology (and Audience) Capture
Over the past few decades, the history of information technology has become littered with many examples of what I would like to refer to as “technology capture“. I think of this as essentially analogous to “audience capture”. Yet I feel as though in the technology industry there are a few caveats we should be particularly… Continue reading Technology (and Audience) Capture
I Read and I Write
Since I spend a lot of my time with a variety of tech gizmos, there are some people who seem curious to “figure out” what I do, and so they ask me to describe what I do. Since this has happened several times before, I have — over many years of their questions and my… Continue reading I Read and I Write
Dovetailing Boundaries with Moving Targets
I am travelling today, and I’ve just decided to combine two pretty much completely different discussions into one combinatorial confrontation. These days I find I am incessantly concerned about the “shifting sands” of propaganda, manipulation and all that jazz. I think of this sort of like investigating quicksand while I am drowning in it. In… Continue reading Dovetailing Boundaries with Moving Targets
Kleinanzeigen (a German term for “classified ads” [in English] ) as “Consumer Platform”
Irrational media are usually (simply) consumer platforms, as the content shared via irrational media cannot be rationally contextualized. [1] Since there is no agreed-upon (and shared) meaningful context available, content is normally simply consumed without being interpreted as appropriate (or inappropriate), simply because irrational media do not provide any context for such kinds of evaluations.… Continue reading Kleinanzeigen (a German term for “classified ads” [in English] ) as “Consumer Platform”
Popular Populism + Popularity Platforms
This week I will offer a little change of pace (and not merely because of a perceived lack of Ps). The other day (actually evening), I attended a “popular music” concert. How do I know it was “popular” music? By paying attention to the extremely quasi-woke Boomer radio station I regularly listen to (which is… Continue reading Popular Populism + Popularity Platforms
Irrational Media Maintains BBC Propaganda Was Merely Edit, Error, … Epic Fail !! ;)
What makes something someone publishes “Fake News”? What makes false statements, lies and deceit an epic fail? I have already written at length about the difference between rational media (based on natural language) and irrational media (based on brand names) — and also about my opinion that irrational media are distrustworthy* (i.e., that they are… Continue reading Irrational Media Maintains BBC Propaganda Was Merely Edit, Error, … Epic Fail !! 😉
One Milieu vs Many Milieus
I have already written a lot about the concept “milieu” … and yet I feel I need to point out that the way the word is commonly used seems rather misleading (at least to me). The common understanding of milieu is rather static, I think. It seems like people map into particular milieus in a… Continue reading One Milieu vs Many Milieus
Mainstream Ignorance
There is something I want to write about related to this topic, but it’s a different topic that hasn’t completely crystalized into a coherent concept yet (at least not in my brain). So I will write about something similar — simply because it is more accessible (to my brain) right now. The other day I… Continue reading Mainstream Ignorance
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