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Cyber culture, social media and Web ?.0 are all themes which describe what this blog is about. On occasion there will be potluck posts… enjoy.

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New media bloggers are out in full force today. The issue? NBC Universal and News Corps’ launch of an online video sharing service. In short, the networks’ competitive response to YouTube.
Sure the announcement is old news. What is new are the partnerships struck with portals like AOL, Yahoo, MSN and MySpace allowing […]

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Media’s Unbearable Lightness of Being…

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

“What then shall we choose? Weight or Lightness?”
-Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”
For those familiar with the book, the author plays with several themes. My favorite, embedded in the book’s very title, plays on three themes:
1) the “heaviness” associated with romantic relationships
2) the transient “lightness” associated with bachelorhood and
3) the constant […]

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