XWSF Tassell ([info]tassellrealm) wrote,
@ 2006-04-15 23:21:00
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Internet Thought.
Unless you can create a relatively clean feedback loop between your internet activity and your daily life - your efforts will have been wasted, and your work will sit in a vacuum.

If you're unable to make that link: better to mow the lawn, or help an old lady across the road.

The division between internet media and established media is a trick, a scam.

It's a way of siphoning dissident voices away from mainstream media.

It's like giving all the troublemakers a big playroom where they can make all the noise they want, and not be heard.

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[info]stanleylieber
2006-04-16 03:34 pm UTC (link)
I should note here that I do at leat partially agree with your initial thesis. However I don't find the Internet an inconsequential medium, especially as it expands to encompass old media as well as exploiting its own unique properties.

What's starting to happen in terms of politics is the harnessing of the distributed organizational strengths of time-shifted networking in ways that were never previously possible (i.e., we don't all have to be face to face or present for the conference call to aggregate, correlate and exchange ideas). The 2004 Democratic Primary and its aftermath provide an interesting case study into this. In America, the other parties are not going to sit on their haunches. The 2008 Presidential campaign will likely be waged largely in the digital realm. There are no Walter Kronkites left in the world; fewer and fewer people can agree on who could fill such a chair.

I certainly see our faith in leaders splintering but I'm not sure if that is wholly beneficial to those who would promote them.

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[info]tassellrealm
2006-04-16 08:40 pm UTC (link)
I should note here that I do at leat partially agree with your initial thesis. However I don't find the Internet an inconsequential medium, especially as it expands to encompass old media as well as exploiting its own unique properties.

Yeah, sure.

Whenever I pick up a book these days, I'm frequently frustrated by not being able to cross-reference, etc.

My frustration is less with the internet itself, and more with it's stubborn refusal to whip the crown off the head of the 'normal' unconsenting media.

Perhaps we're just getting to the harnel-aoot of things.

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