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
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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”
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
Consumer Behavior and Belief
We consume a lot of things — including, I guess, things we aren’t even aware that we’re consuming … like ideas. I think a lot of our behavior follows patterns that are “animalistic” in nature. Like Mick Jagger (with the Rolling Stones) sang: we salivate like a pavlov dog. Apparently, our systems are based on… Continue reading Consumer Behavior and Belief
Political and Industrial Institutionalisation of Publicity
Even if men and women alike are not born, neither are babies born free nor do children usually grow up in free markets. All of evolution follows in the footsteps of their predecessors, their environments, and find their more or less appropriate milieus. Although there is no void, we are nonetheless more or less free… Continue reading Political and Industrial Institutionalisation of Publicity
Relationships Among Local and Topical and Milieus
Over the past decade or so, I have been increasingly emphasizing that the languages we speak belong to the linguistic communities we participate in. A few days ago, I was a little thrilled to be vindicated when Adam Curry declared what I wish to refer to as his cardinal rule of podcasting: Be about your… Continue reading Relationships Among Local and Topical and Milieus
Exploring Humanity: Clickbait Edition
I’ve been asked to be part of an event to highlight some music I find worthy of highlighting at a weekend soiree in a couple weeks, and I’ve chosen to focus my “feature” on a brief period in musical history (roughly 1980’s, yet also as far back as the 1950’s and also much later —… Continue reading Exploring Humanity: Clickbait Edition
Spoken vs. Written Language
Writing this week’s blog post has been difficult, because I have experienced significant trauma related to the topic of this post. In graduate school, I wrote an essay on the differences between written and spoken languages in a course called “diachronic linguistics”, in which I came to the conclusion that it is impossible to study… Continue reading Spoken vs. Written Language
Scaling Time
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist https://www.wittgensteinproject.org/w/index.php/Logisch-philosophische_Abhandlung#1 When I turn on the radio, I usually expect to be entertained more than I expect to be informed — and my expectations seem to be confirmed time after time. This morning was no exception. This morning I heard that something had happened in Vancouver (Canada)… Continue reading Scaling Time
Virtual Milieus (vs. IRL Milieus)
A couple weeks ago, I pondered the question “What is a Milieu with No Location?” [ https://indigenous.news.blog/2025/02/12/distributed-milieus-what-is-a-milieu-with-no-location ] This week, I heard an interview with Silke Borgstedt (“Geschäftsführerin” at Sinus-Institut) — she was invited as a guest to a local news program in order to explain what insights her company might be able to provide in… Continue reading Virtual Milieus (vs. IRL Milieus)
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