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Archives for October 2005
Warden watching gamers
BBC NEWS | Technology | Warcraft game maker in spying row
Waiting to Be Asked
The Observer | Magazine | Dear Marie
This is an example of the kind of thing I was talking about in my paper for Technologies of Persuasion.
10 Earshots
This week’s Earshot was the 10th I produced. I was listening back to some of the ones from last year and I’m really quite proud of the show we’ve put together.
This week’s show is about Darwin and the theory of evolution. I interviewed Chris Raxworthy from the American Museum of Natural History.
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Drowning in Media
Power of Nightmares
A year after downloading this 3-part documentary I finally got around to watching it. It’s worth a look.
It’s an interesting look at the similarities and common interests of the neo-cons and the islamists.
Ubiquity of Advertising
Aliens are taking over our culture.
I wrote a paper for Technologies of Persuasion inspired by Technopoly by Neil Postman, [...]
Some Original Programming
So this week I insisted that we busy some original programming. The syndicated shows didn’t do too well. That didn’t matter though, because we still made money.
This week’s Viewers’ Guide
Smelling of Strawberries
BBC NEWS | Business | Strawberry smell trademark denied
Olfactory memory lasts a long time. The ability to associate a smell with a particular product to the exclusion of all others would be a strong weapon for advertisers trying to colonise our brains.
Environmental and Social Impacts of Gold Mining
Behind Gold’s Glitter: Torn Lands and Pointed Questions - New York Times
Story with Stills
I edited together those 12 pictures from September to make a sequence. It sucks, but it was a good exercise for practising Final Cut Pro.
The Tipping Point
These days you hear a lot about tipping points for various things - Jeff Jarvis refers to them all the time when he talks about citizens media.
This week I read a chapter of Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. It was about time I got around to reading at least some of the book since it’s [...]
Project Thin Ice
This week’s guest on Earshot was Eric Larsen of One World Expeditions, who was part of Greenpeace’s Project Thin Ice.
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