Media Mindfulness

“We report. You Decide.”

Wondering where your news comes from? One of the underlying principles of a “propaganda environment” is an information complex in which the values of the system are internalized. Remember that traditional media are corporations in the business of selling programming, including news. One of the criticisms of traditional media (as opposed to [...]

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… but watch the video first!
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I agree and disagree with the criticism of Buy Less Crap. On the one hand I don’t believe we can shop our way out of social and ecological problems. On the other, corporations are the most powerful force on the planet (besides people and nature), so why not change our patterns to force corporations into [...]

We’ve come in peace. Take us to your leader…
Newsweek has an interesting piece on Bush’s body language on his recent trip to Latin America. This relates to a new category I’m adding called “cognition.” I’m increasingly interested in how the mind receives and processes information. This is an area that is consistently ignored in mainstream [...]

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A fun opportunity. Check it out.

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The New Science of Human Evolution - Newsweek Technology - MSNBC.com:
New research also shows that “progress” and “human evolution” are only occasional partners. More than once in human prehistory, evolution created a modern trait such as a face without jutting, apelike brows and jaws, only to let it go extinct, before trying again a few [...]

Environment - Movies - New York Times:
Dumping Hollywood villains of the past — drug lords, aliens, North Korean dictators, even the news media — for an environmental bête noire carries risks for studios that don’t mind frightening viewers, as long as it’s all in fun. But it also hints at the possibility of more sophisticated [...]

As reported earlier, things are heating up in several oil rich countries on the Arabian peninsula to become new Vegas-like destinations of the global jet set (for what it’s worth, now Halliburton Co. is reportedly moving its headquarters to Dubai). Now Abu Dhabi is trying to outdo Dubai in capitalist swank, art being a new [...]

Podibooks. The name says it all. Free, serialized books for your digital media player. No poetry yet, but I hope it comes.
Incidentally, I have a good friend who has severe ADD, but loves literature. Audiobooks have saved his life. Personally I love them, but since I spend most of my time reading and writing, they [...]

Source: Bansky

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Sometimes you can feel an idea in the air and grab it. Before Wired came out with it’s Media Snack Attack, one visionary educator in the UK had already thought of the concept. He observed that youth were like media snackers and went on to create an innovative training around this idea. The website is [...]

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This video was written, edited, produced and directed by 12 year old Walees Crittendon, resident of Big Mountain.
Source: Indigenous Action Media

I think every step towards greening, as small as it might be, is a great (see linked article below). I’m still concerned, however, about the amount of electricity consumed by the Las Vegas strip. It [...]

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From a Carl Sagan quote. Via TruthDig.com

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Man, these guys could spin Hitler into a saint. Nice work!

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(Feferberg/AFP)
May he live on in simulation….
La mort de Jean Baudrillard:
Jean Baudrillard s’est éteint mardi à Paris, à l’âge de 77 ans, a annoncé son entourage.
Né le 20 juillet 1929 à Reims, germaniste de formation et traducteur de Brecht, Jean Baudrillard a enseigné la sociologie à partir de 1966 à l’Université de Nanterre. Il a élaboré, [...]

Steve Anderson of COA News has written a nice little summary of how some activist media portals are going Web 2.0:
Independent News Portal COAnews: coanews.org : Independent Media Goes Web 2.0:
With their exceptional popularity, these social web tools are increasingly important, and it is incredibly significant that independent media organizations are developing these tools [...]

Update:

This is where William Burroughs comes in with his Naked Lunch. When we
invent new technology, we become cannibals. We eat ourselves alive since
these technologies are merely extensions of ourselves. The new environment
shaped by electric technology is a cannibalistic one that eats people. To
survive one must study the habits of cannibals - McLuhan, “The Hot and [...]

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Some of you may have seen the film Minority Report (or read the PK Dick book it was based on) about the precog units that can predict future crime. It’s kinda like our foreign policy of preemptive war, except in the later case, it’s more about “bellyfeel” than science. In the article below there is [...]

You be the judge…
Child Health and Safety > TV Effective ‘Painkiller’ For Kids:
TV really does act like a painkiller when it comes to kids, reveals a small study published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.

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