Enter World: exploring mediated cultures

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Or living through the screen, as it may be.

A couple days ago I saw an ad at Blockbuster for their enhanced membership, the tag line was Experience More. I chuckled half to myself at the idea that sitting in front of a television set watching others act out a story was experience as opposed to the world going on outside that small rental store’s doors.

Tonight I heard on the radio that grocery stores are unveiling shopping carts with built in movies to keep kids entertained. There was a psychologist interviewed who said the increasing number of children who are either amused or bored dependent upon screens being present (waiting room tv sets, personal DVDs, minivan movies, etc) is taking away from parent child interaction and the kids aren’t learning things from the parents they should be learning.

Thursday, August 17, 2006

connecting a mac to two networks

after days of not being able to have my iMac connected to both a wireless internet connection and my local router with the printer and hard drive the answer has finally come to me, and so I share with the online world ...

the brilliant tech that I spoke to last (in a line of three) pointed me to Network Port Configurations in system preferences > network > show. simply drag airport above built-in ethernet. voila. all works well in the land of computers.

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

When the copier became an accessible means of production, waves of activists began using them to self publish and connect with others through zines. With Google Video and other methods of sharing video without high production and distribution costs, documentaries seem to be more common and more outspoken. Are documentaries this decade’s activist communication tool?

Monday, June 26, 2006

It’s funny to see all the places my business was pushing toward RSS and blogs a couple years ago start using them now. And now we’re closing down our blog in favor of an email and print newsletter. I’m much more excited about variable data printing these days, and other forms of printing, than the online publishing. And I think the online publishing has brought this about for many—a renewed interest in words and ideas in concise published formats. Maybe the next new thing is print.

It looks like the job opportunities in the digital print field are booming. Certainly something to keep an eye on.