When I think of today’s pop culture, it’s often with disgust. Now that I’m older and wiser, I can’t pretend I don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction. There was a time when I embraced the current culture. But even then, it wasn’t always my culture that I embraced. My high school years were… Read more »
Author: Eric
I'm a writer, video editor, foodie, and geek.
What Gadget Culture Is Not
CC Licensed Photo Off with her head! Unlike Alice’s evil queen, I rarely make impulsive decisions. Even then they are often prefaced by several inciting incidents. A few days ago I made such a decision. Gizmodo is a familiar name for some of my technically inclined readers. It’s generally considered a “technology blog”, and several… Read more »
Blogging 3.0: Are We There Yet?
Remember when blogging started? Not the actual date so much as the feelings reading a typical blog invoked. Blogging 1.0 was all about the personal made public. It was a way to share what you were doing or thinking before Twitter and Facebook… before sharing that information was accepted or expected. Suddenly, you understood you… Read more »
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Royal Flower Girl Trumps The Don
We know how you feel sweetie!
The Bleeding Middle Class…
Who Owns What You Create?
This is the final essay I wrote for Media Law and Ethics. The World Intellectual Property Organization refers to intellectual property as “creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works… and designs used in commerce” (WIPO). Throughout the course we have been reminded that IP law exists to stimulate creativity and inventiveness. Yet, today… Read more »
It’s Your Community; You Decide
Ask 10 people to define “community” and you’ll probably get 10 different answers, or none at all. We may all agree on a broad definition–a group of people who share a commonality, for instance, location, a disease, religious or political beliefs. But try to nail the fine details and even broad definitions disintegrate. Perhaps that’s… Read more »
9/11: Let Us Move On; Let The Dead Sleep
To the living, the dead are asleep. The Bible makes that clear. There is but one voice they will hear; it is not ours. They don’t know we still weep. Their nerves don’t grate at the shrill bagpipes played in their honor. The tolling bell does not disturb their slumber. They do not stir when… Read more »
Life’s Falls
Yesterday had that look. It was the first hint that I had seen all summer. Well past the Summer Solstice, the sun’s golden rays had taken on the slant that says fall is coming. It’s definitely not here yet, although the past few days have been a welcome relief from the weeks of broiling temperatures… Read more »