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This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Hello Everyone. I finished 30 straight days of blogging last week. The goal was consistency. Follow this thread to see which on my writings were great, which were not, which were hits, and which fell flat. The Best Piece The Best […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Cartoon from 1899 depicting world powers cutting up China China is the world’s largest country by population, 2nd largest economy by GDP and has the second highest expenditure on military in the world. Yet why is the rest of the world […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. English is as much a lingua franca as the world as ever seen. There is no right English pronunciation of any word. In England’s Green & Pleasant Land The Anglo-Saxon people were really good at conquering. Not just land, but the […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Consumer society turns households into a vessels for trash on the path to their destiny. Mass-production is just an engine to produce trash. Our oceans are just warehouses for trash, where it is becoming larger than most islands. Our idols’ […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Photo by Matthew Henry from Burst Hello. I have run out of ideas again. This was a monumental undertaking to begin with. I am this close to finishing and I am not giving up. This is the 27th day of this […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Eventually the open web will be killed and the internet will transform into hundreds of national and thousands of regional networks. The governments of the world wouldn’t have it any other way. In the beginning Before the internet, information was […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. After reading the previous parts(part 1 and part 2) of this trilogy, you might think I hate spoken-word audio. Nothing can be further from the truth. I love people talking in my headphones. Which is why I can tell you […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Yesterday, I illustrated why ‘hot’ voice-notes are not compatible with the ‘cold’ text messages, in light Marshall Macluhan’s media theories. You can read that here. Today I will show you some practical reasons you should not use voice-notes in text […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Audio is a ‘hot’ medium. Text-messages are a ‘cool’ medium. Voice Notes( or voice messages) have no place in text messaging conversation. This high-brow media theory is not why voice-notes annoy me, but it provides an explanation. Media and Messages Marshall […]