Comments on: The Medium is the Messenger, That is All http://www.gypsybandito.com/the-medium-is-the-messenger-that-is-all/ The wandering thoughts of a digital nomad... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:25:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: CT Moore http://www.gypsybandito.com/the-medium-is-the-messenger-that-is-all/comment-page-1/#comment-9823 CT Moore Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:15:48 +0000 http://www.gypsybandito.com/?p=903#comment-9823 @Mike, Okay, you have a point with Twitter. It was actually a blog post by Nick Carr that got me thinking of this. He got to talking about social media (re: Twitter) <a href="http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/03/more_present_th.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">and said</a>: <blockquote>Mass media reaches its natural end-state when we broadcast our lives rather than live them.</blockquote> But I still think that it's more of a moral than a message, a "conclusion" that we should draw from the current state of things. It just so happens that with some media, that conclusion is "written on the wall." @Mike,
Okay, you have a point with Twitter. It was actually a blog post by Nick Carr that got me thinking of this. He got to talking about social media (re: Twitter) and said:

Mass media reaches its natural end-state when we broadcast our lives rather than live them.

But I still think that it’s more of a moral than a message, a “conclusion” that we should draw from the current state of things. It just so happens that with some media, that conclusion is “written on the wall.”

]]> By: Mike Maddaloni - The Hot Iron http://www.gypsybandito.com/the-medium-is-the-messenger-that-is-all/comment-page-1/#comment-9801 Mike Maddaloni - The Hot Iron Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:05:47 +0000 http://www.gypsybandito.com/?p=903#comment-9801 Well, it can depend. Sometimes the medium is the message is there is no message. How many times have you gone to twitter.com and felt compelled to say something and you couldn't think of a thing? Ok, I have many times. Channel surfing on cable is the same thing in my mind - you have a need to watch TV but you don't really watch it, you are using the medium. In general though I try to avoid these kinds of discussions as I can think of better things to do, like take a walk along the lake... mp/m Well, it can depend.

Sometimes the medium is the message is there is no message. How many times have you gone to twitter.com and felt compelled to say something and you couldn’t think of a thing? Ok, I have many times. Channel surfing on cable is the same thing in my mind – you have a need to watch TV but you don’t really watch it, you are using the medium.

In general though I try to avoid these kinds of discussions as I can think of better things to do, like take a walk along the lake…

mp/m

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