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The Medium is the Message

Jim Selman | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Government, Social Media, Twitter, Social Networking, Marshall McLuhan, Youtube, Power, Hulu, Facebook, Learning, Communication, Living News
Jim Selman

The general consensus is that the phenomenon of social networking/social media is as potentially revolutionary as the Industrial Revolution. Whether this is hyperbole or turns out to be fact will remain a question for history.

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Repositioning America: Obama's Cairo Speech as the Ultimate in Event Marketing

William Bradley | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Al Qaeda, George W. Bush, 9/11, Iraq, America, Dick Cheney, Iran, Jihad, Event Marketing, Muslim, Modernity, Indonesia, Guantanamo Bay, Saudi Arabia, Marshall McLuhan, Neoconservative, Islam, Bibi Netanyahu, Hosni Mubarak, Tradition, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Samuel Huntington, African American, Cairo, Israel, Afghanistan, Kenya, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Torture, Paletine, King Abdullah, Riyadh, Al Jazeera, Obama Mideast Trip, World News
William Bradley

Not only did no one throw shoes at Obama, the crowd of 3,000 in Cairo gave him a standing ovation. Watching the speech, I had the feeling that the world might be changing again.

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The 100-Day Nonsense: Too Much Opinion, Not Enough News

Jim Selman | Posted 06.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Marshall McLuhan, Scorecard, Obama, The Second Coming, 100 Days, Media News
Jim Selman

"The Presidential Scorecard: The First 100 Days" is obviously choreographed by the same people who can make war sound like a college football game and almost anything ordinary sound significant.

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Obama's Lead Solidifying: Cool, Kennedy Style Trumps Hot Opponent McCain

Robert Kubey | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cool Medium, Marshall McLuhan, Television, Hot Medium, Obama McCain Debates, Presidential Debates, 2008 Presidential Race, Politics News
Robert Kubey

In the 1960s, the so-called "guru of media," Marshall McLuhan, dubbed television the "cool medium." He used the "hot-cool medium" distinction to expl...

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Obama's Not Specific Enough? Gimme a Break

Linda Bergthold | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: C-Span, Saddleback Forum, John McCain, Tax Policy 2008 Presidential Campaign, Marshall McLuhan, Anderson Cooper 360, Pbs Newshour, Heath Ledger, Barack Obama Charisma, Movies, Barack Obama, Politics News
Linda Bergthold

Maybe we are not interested in learning this stuff, or maybe TV is just the wrong medium for transmitting serious information.

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And I Quote (Random Quotations for a Mediocre Time)

Richard Laermer | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Laermer.com, Marshall McLuhan, Thomas Jefferson, John Lennon, Warren Zevon, Edgar Allen Poe, Business News
Richard Laermer

I decided to think of every quote worthy to share. Here: ************ I don't know where, but she sends me there. -Brian Wilson [crazy mad genius] ...

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Barack and Bobby: Compare and Contrast; and, Obama-Clinton as Lennon-McCartney circa 1970

RJ Eskow | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Marshall McLuhan, Rfk, Hillary Clinton, Tom Hayden, Barack Obama, Robert F. Kennedy, Politics News
RJ Eskow

Bobby Kennedy was the ultimate insider, the product of wealth and power. Obama's is doing the opposite: He's climbing up the mountain. Where RFK was the ultimate insider, he's the ultimate outsider.

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