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The media climate

Alex Burns’ “The Worldflash of a Coming Future” analyzes the media climate before and after 9/11 amid such events as the wars in Iraq, Kosovo and Somalia in addition to 9/11 itself.

He discusses the “CNN Effect”, “Gateholder” and “Manufacturing Consent” models of media ecology. It’s a very thorough essay and seems very well-researched, even if it does seem to have high intellectual barriers to understanding.* (It would definitely help to have read all of the sources he cites; though I believe that he does an admirable job of encapsulating sources. The question: what is lost?)

*For example: What exactly does “neo-noir work culture” mean?

even when i’m not dreaming

otherwise the old skreeming. like a little creem in your milk? or some old bizarre. (i mean, bazaar) i’ve a mind to spearhead the unravelling rug, pin that loose thread down and fly around the world, ravelling as i unravel. (who’d go with me on my little odyssey? wrapping the world in yarn: yo, ariadne eat your heart out!)

it seems, that i’m even travelling in other dreams

way to go me! zoom zoom zoom!

but still there’s this rather gordian dilemma: namely how to separate the me that’s here from the me that might be anywhere.

inscrutable desires. and what about other kinds of travelling?

A possible spam solution.

The value of creating a “whitelist” for email, as opposed to a blacklist. (In only 35 steps!)

The basic idea is that you create a system whereby, in order for someone to send you an email, you require them to send a confirmation that their listed email address is actually a valid one. (Many spam-emails are automatically generated and don’t have a valid reply-to address.)

(I found this via Scott Rosenberg’s Salon Blog. I don’t normally read Lockergnome, though maybe I should start.)