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  1. Piers Morgan’s Russell Brand interview perfectly straddled old and new media

    In one of the most celebrated episodes of The Simpsons, Bart’s nemesis Sideshow Bob steps on nine rakes…
    #NewsBeep #News #TV #Entertainment #legacymedia #newmedia #PiersMorgan #RussellBrand #tv #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/552850/

  2. #A16z has invested in a #newmedia company called #MonitoringtheSituation (#MTS). MTS will provide #realtime #analysis and #interviews on current events across technology, business, politics, and culture, aiming to be the best place to make sense of what’s happening right now. a16z.news/p/monitoring-the-sit #tech #media #news

  3. #BeyondPictures 🕹️ The #Metaverse focuses on #technews about #3D #virtualworlds, XR, VR, MR, AR in society, economy, media, science.

    #OldMedia 🎥 Over 100 years ago the foundations of modern film were laid paving the way for all #audiovisualmedia.

    #NewMedia 🚀 After more than a century, we’re witnessing the birth of an entirely #newmedium something generations haven’t seen before: Are you ready, or will you watch from the sidelines?

    👉 Metaverse.EU
    👉 @metaverse #news

  4. WORLDLY POWERS RECAST THROUGH THE LENS OF DIGITAL REALM

    How do online creators like Michael Blaustein and Mark Rober compare to media titans like Rupert Murdoch? See how digital power is changing influence.

    #DigitalMedia, #MediaInfluence, #InfluencerMarketing, #NewMedia, #PowerShift

    newsletter.tf/digital-influenc

  5. WORLDLY POWERS RECAST THROUGH THE LENS OF DIGITAL REALM

    How do online creators like Michael Blaustein and Mark Rober compare to media titans like Rupert Murdoch? See how digital power is changing influence.

    #DigitalMedia, #MediaInfluence, #InfluencerMarketing, #NewMedia, #PowerShift

    newsletter.tf/digital-influenc

  6. New rankings show digital stars like comedians and chefs are gaining as much influence as old media owners like Rupert Murdoch, changing who shapes what we see.

    #DigitalMedia, #MediaInfluence, #InfluencerMarketing, #NewMedia, #PowerShift
    newsletter.tf/digital-influenc

  7. New rankings show digital stars like comedians and chefs are gaining as much influence as old media owners like Rupert Murdoch, changing who shapes what we see.

    #DigitalMedia, #MediaInfluence, #InfluencerMarketing, #NewMedia, #PowerShift
    newsletter.tf/digital-influenc

  8. One thing I picked up from the Bold Politics podcast is that Carole Cadwalladr and some other ex-Guardian reporters have just set up a new venture 'The Nerve". Looks worth checking out

    #TheNerve #NewMedia #CaroleCadwalladr #TheGuardian

    thenerve.news/

  9. “Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior, especially in collective matters of media and technology, where the individual is almost inevitably unaware of their effects upon him.”*…

    TV glasses, modeled by their creator, Hugo Gernsback (1963) source

    In the early 1970’s Marshall McLuhan and his son set out to discover if there might be general principles of technology, attributes, and effects common to all products of human innovation, to all of these artificial extensions of ourselves. Eric’s son, Andrew McLuhan shares their findings…

    … Toward the end of his life, a life which ended before his 70th birthday, Avant Garde magazine asked Marshall McLuhan what he considered his greatest achievement. His reply?

    “I consider my greatest achievement is the discovery that all human artifacts, all the extensions of man, are patterned structurally in the mode of the word. Whether it is a medium like radio, a bull dozer, or a safety pin; whether it is the word or a law of science, all these utterings and outerings of man have a four-part structure which is that of metaphor itself. I will illustrate this discovery from the character of money, which:

    (a) enhances the speed of exchange

    (b) obsolesces barter

    (c) retrieves potlatch (conspicuous waste) and

    (d) when pushed to its limits, flips or reverses its character into credit.

    A book of these things is due to appear, title ‘The Laws of the Media’.”

    But no one was interested in publishing it. It wasn’t published until 1988 when Eric McLuhan finally got someone – University of Toronto Press – to put it out as ‘Laws of Media: The New Science.’ The subtitle was a deliberate nod to Francis Bacon (Novum Organon) and Giambattista Vico (Scienza Nuova) of which tradition the McLuhans felt their work was part.

    I have noticed more people using the laws of media, or the ‘tetrad’ (group of four) as it’s called, lately.

    The laws of media can’t tell you everything about any technology, but they give you four reliable places from which to begin to explore what any technology is and what it does – another way of saying ‘the medium is the message.’ Particularly, it’s a way of examining the form of a thing and not just its content. The content of a medium, what we do with it, pay attention to, is always both the smaller part of the situation, and the less affective area. In Understanding Media McLuhan brilliantly paraphrases T S Eliot when he describes content as the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind. The content keeps us busy, hold our attention, while the media do their work rearranging us, our lives, our world. To enlist Mary Poppins, content is the spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down.

    The four things the McLuhans discovered are that:

    Any given technology enhances or amplifies some aspect of us. We create tools to do something we already do faster, more easily or efficiently. Gloves to save our hands. Computers, to calculate. Telephone, that our voice carries across the world.

    “It is a persistent theme of this book that all technologies are extensions of our physical and nervous systems to increase power and speed.” (‘Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man’ 1964)

    It obsolesces, it upsets or displaces, disrupts something already in a dominant position. The Linotype machine put 90% of typesetters out of work. Twitter broke the news that television and radio networks used to.

    “Now today, we speak of the book as obsolete. This means the book is acquiring ever new uses in the age of Xerox and the age of paperbacks.” (Marshall and Eric McLuhan in conversation, 1971)

    It retrieves, or brings back something from the past, however near or far, in a new form. Text messaging put a telegraph in your pocket. The man in the car, the knight in shining armour.

    “What recurrence or retrieval of earlier actions and services is brought into play simultaneously by the new form? What older, previously obsolesced ground is brought back and inheres in the new form?” ‘Laws of Media: The New Science’ 1988

    When pushed past a point, it tends to flip or reverses its utility or characteristics. A glass of wine or two can make for a good time, relieve stress, grease the social wheels. A few bottles… quite the opposite. Information assists informed, timely decisions, too much information leads to overload, paralysis.

    When pushed to the limits of its potential the new form will tend to reverse what had been its original characteristics. What is the reversal potential of the new form?” (Laws of Media: The New Science 1988)

    For example, here’s a tetrad from Laws of Media:

    Xerox:

    enhances: the speed of the printing press

    obsolesces: the assembly-line book

    reverses into: everybody becomes a publisher

    retrieves: the oral tradition

    Laws of Media: The New Science (Marshall and Eric McLuhan, 1988)

    While media can be complex in nature and do many things, Marshall and Eric found that all media, without exception, do these four things. As remarkable as this discovery is – so remarkable that Marshall McLuhan considered it his most impressive achievement – almost equally remarkable is that so few people know about it.

    They found four things which applied in all cases, but never stopped looking for a fifth. I know my father Eric was still keeping an eye or ear out for a fifth common dimension, something that would apply without exception to all media. A few people have ventured one thing or another but they did not satisfy my father’s criteria…

    … The ‘laws of media’ can’t tell you everything about any medium, but it does give us something remarkable: predictability. We know that anything we can come up with will do these four things. It will amplify some part of us. It will make something obsolete. It will bring something back from the past in a new form. It will, when pushed, flip. This is an incredible advantage when it comes to new media. It gives us a real head start on being able to anticipate the effects of new forms on us and our world…

    … [Per the title quote above] The point of the tetrad, the point of media studies at all, is to make media visible. To force us to pay attention to what’s happening all around us, sometimes only slightly beneath our awareness, sometimes buried deeply underneath. The true user experience is what we don’t notice but which shapes us all the same…

    More (including how to “make” tetrads yourself): “Laws of (New) Media.”

    * Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964

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    As we engage with the emergent, we might recall that it was on this date in 1993 that ABC and CBS simultaneously broadcast their own movies based on the Amy Fisher story with ABC’s starring Drew Barrymore and CBS’s starring Alyssa Milano. NBC had already scooped the other networks, airing their own version (starring Noelle Parker) about six days prior.

    Milano, Parker, and Barrymore (source) #AmyFisher #culture #history #LawsOfMedia #MarshallMcLuhan #media #newMedia #Technology #television #tetrads #UnderstandingMedia
  10. Imagine my surprise to find an almost fully functioning live version of the folly website circa July 2011.

    I ran folly for 10 yrs until it was forced to close.

    Apart from some absent images the content is largely intact.

    Enjoy a little bit of history.

    #digitalarts #newmedia

    folly.co.uk

  11. Who does the news serve?

    #Irishmedia needs much more #transparency about the interests of media owners, journalists, presenters, and interviewees.

    Prof #EileenCulloty of #DublinCityUniversity challenges the double standards of Irish #oldmedia. They rightly denounce the failings of #newmedia, but repeatedly fail basic transparency tests. The #IvanYates scandal is only the tip of the iceberg.

    Paywalled original: irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/11

    Archived full text: archive.is/ogA0y

  12. Indoor Life Expectancy of Your Property 🏡🔧

    On this episode of Homework, Mitch breaks down how long common interior features last — from paint jobs to kitchen appliances and carpets.

    👉 Watch the full episode: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/sho

    #HomeworkWithMitch #HomeMaintenance #PropertyTips #MichiganHomes #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  13. Recovery Center Warns of “Gas Station Opioid” ⚠️💊

    Michigan recovery experts say a new drug, 7-OH, is being sold legally at vape shops and mimics the effects of opioids — highly addictive and dangerous to those in recovery.

    👉 Read more on the growing concern: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #OpioidCrisis #Michigan #PublicHealth #AddictionRecovery #DrugAwareness #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  14. Marine City Commission Meeting Recap – Sept. 4 🏛️

    With a one-page agenda and 37-page packet, the Sept. 4 Marine City Commission meeting wrapped up in just 47 minutes. Commissioner Sean O’Brien was absent.

    👉 Read the full recap: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #MarineCity #CityCommission #LocalGovernment #MichiganNews #CommunityUpdate #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  15. Giants Open as 5.5-Point Underdogs vs. Cowboys 🏈

    The New York Giants (0-1) are +5.5 underdogs on the road against the Dallas Cowboys (0-1) this Sunday in Arlington, per BetMGM. The O/U holds at 44.5.

    👉 Full Week 2 betting breakdown: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #NYGiants #DallasCowboys #NFL #SportsBetting #NFLWeek2 #SportsNews #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  16. Flint Water System Hits 9 Years of Lead Rule Compliance 💧✅

    Michigan’s EGLE announced Flint’s water system has now met state and federal lead standards for nine straight years — a milestone in the city’s recovery efforts.

    👉 Read more on Flint’s progress: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #Flint #WaterSafety #MichiganNews #EGLE #CleanWater #CommunityUpdate #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  17. Flint Water System Hits 9 Years of Lead Rule Compliance 💧✅

    Michigan’s EGLE announced Flint’s water system has now met state and federal lead standards for nine straight years — a milestone in the city’s recovery efforts.

    👉 Read more on Flint’s progress: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #Flint #WaterSafety #MichiganNews #EGLE #CleanWater #CommunityUpdate #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  18. Flint Water System Hits 9 Years of Lead Rule Compliance 💧✅

    Michigan’s EGLE announced Flint’s water system has now met state and federal lead standards for nine straight years — a milestone in the city’s recovery efforts.

    👉 Read more on Flint’s progress: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #Flint #WaterSafety #MichiganNews #EGLE #CleanWater #CommunityUpdate #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  19. Flint Water System Hits 9 Years of Lead Rule Compliance 💧✅

    Michigan’s EGLE announced Flint’s water system has now met state and federal lead standards for nine straight years — a milestone in the city’s recovery efforts.

    👉 Read more on Flint’s progress: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #Flint #WaterSafety #MichiganNews #EGLE #CleanWater #CommunityUpdate #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  20. Marine City Resident Seeks Flood Relief 🌧️🏠

    After July’s heavy rainstorms left homes damaged, Marine City officials say financial assistance is being prepared for affected residents. The city manager and attorney will address next steps.

    👉 Read more on the relief efforts: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #MarineCity #FloodRelief #MichiganNews #CommunityUpdate #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  21. @barking 🧵As We May Not Think

    Very enjoyable, and great live use of #aswemaythink trail tech!

    I smiled at your note on Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort’s ‘New Media Reader’. It’s still a great read and has scholarly glosses — and sometimes full text — of original sources.

    newmediareader.com/about.html

    The NMR Book Samples page includes a free link to the excellent chapter on Ted Nelson’s ‘Computer Lib / Dream Machines’.

    newmediareader.com/book_sample

    #hypertext #newmedia #tednelson

  22. Community Foundation Awards $35K to Rockin’ in the Plaza 🎶💰

    The St. Clair County Community Foundation granted $35,000 to support Rockin’ in the Plaza, the concert series bringing 130+ shows to downtown St. Clair from spring through fall.

    👉 Read more on the funding boost: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #StClair #RockinInThePlaza #LiveMusic #CommunityFoundation #MichiganEvents #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  23. St. Clair Orders Removal of Storage Unit at Riverside Home 🏠📦

    After 2½ years of failed enforcement, St. Clair City Council voted Aug. 18 to remove a storage unit at 1504 S. Riverside Ave. The cost will be placed on the property as a single-lot assessment unless the resident removes it within 21 days.

    👉 Full story on the council’s decision: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #StClair #CityCouncil #LocalGovernment #MichiganNews #CommunityUpdate #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  24. Bible Time with Pastor Dennis Holland – Our Struggle with Faith ✝️

    In this episode of Bible Time, Pastor Dennis Holland reflects on what faith truly means and explores the challenges Christians face in living it out today.

    👉 Watch the full message now: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/sho

    #BibleTime #PastorDennisHolland #Faith #ChristianLiving #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  25. Help Prevent Electrical Fires at Home 🔌🔥

    Electrical failures cause nearly 44,000 home fires each year, leading to hundreds of deaths and billions in damage. A simple step to protect your home: schedule a fire safety inspection.

    👉 Learn more on prevention: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #HomeSafety #FirePrevention #ElectricalSafety #ESFI #HomeInspection #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  26. ChatGPT said:

    Port Huron Code of Ethics 🏛️

    All Port Huron employees — from staff to the Mayor and City Council — must follow the Code of Ethics. BWHL stresses that leaders set the example for honest, transparent government where violations aren’t tolerated.

    👉 Read more on accountability in city leadership: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #PortHuron #CityGovernment #CodeOfEthics #Transparency #Accountability #MichiganNews #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  27. Algonac Introduces Short-Term Rental Ordinance 🏠

    Algonac City Council has proposed new rules for short-term rentals to ensure safety, maintenance, and respect for residents. The ordinance, part of Chapter 10 of the city code, drew mixed feedback at the Aug. 19 meeting — with some calling it “a good first start” but lacking detail.

    👉 Read more on the proposal: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #Algonac #ShortTermRentals #CityCouncil #LocalGovernment #MichiganNews #CommunityUpdate #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  28. Algonac City Council Wraps Up Aug. 19 Meeting 🏛️

    Starting early with a closed session to evaluate the city manager, the Algonac City Council reconvened and completed its regular agenda in under 40 minutes.

    👉 Get the full meeting recap: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #Algonac #CityCouncil #LocalGovernment #MichiganNews #CommunityUpdate #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  29. The Bad Guys Arrive 🚔

    In the 1920s, Ed Swiss became St. Clair’s unlikely lawman. After a logging injury ended his career, he moved to town with his new wife — and soon found himself wearing the badge.

    👉 Read the full story of St. Clair’s early cop: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/ent

    #StClair #MichiganHistory #Lawman #LocalLegends #1920sHistory #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  30. Cadillac Bear: The Hotel’s Mysterious Local Legend 🐻✨

    Back in the 1940s, the Cadillac Hotel hosted a peculiar “guest” — black, furry, and sporting a scary eye patch. Known only as the Cadillac Bear, his presence became a curious piece of local lore.

    👉 Read the full tale of this mysterious celebrity: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/ent

    #CadillacBear #MichiganHistory #LocalLegends #CadillacHotel #Storytime #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  31. New Baltimore Native Brings Jazz Trio to Beaver Island 🎶✨

    Folk and jazz artist Claudia Schmidt, born and raised in New Baltimore, returns “home” with her trio. Her first gig — as a teen at Selfridge Field’s NCO Club — was just the start of a lifelong music journey.

    👉 Read more about her Beaver Island performance: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #ClaudiaSchmidt #Jazz #FolkMusic #BeaverIsland #MichiganMusic #LiveMusic #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  32. North Korea Slams South Korean President Ahead of US Summit 🌍

    Pyongyang dismissed South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung as speaking “gibberish,” calling his engagement push a “pipedream” ahead of his first summit with Donald Trump.

    👉 Full story on the rising tensions: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #NorthKorea #SouthKorea #Trump #USPolitics #Diplomacy #AsiaNews #WorldNews #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  33. Trump: US Could Offer Air Support for Ukraine Peace Deal ✈️🌍

    President Donald Trump ruled out sending U.S. troops to Ukraine but said America may provide air support as part of a potential peace agreement to end the war.

    👉 Read the full story on the proposal: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #Trump #UkraineWar #Russia #PeaceDeal #AirSupport #Diplomacy #WorldNews #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  34. Dogs as Pets: The Dachshund 🐾

    Playful, bold, and affectionate, Dachshunds are great with kids and make loyal watchdogs — though they do love to bark.

    👉 Discover more about this fearless breed: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/ent

    #Dachshund #DogsAsPets #DogLovers #PurebredDogs #FamilyPets #DogBreeds #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  35. Marine City Manager Updates $10M Water Project 🚰

    Marine City’s Safe Drinking Water Project, launched in February, is nearing completion of its first two phases. But phase three, planned for early next year, faces funding concerns — prompting a request for $10 million in capital improvement bonds.

    👉 Read the full update on: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #MarineCity #WaterProject #SafeDrinkingWater #Infrastructure #PublicWorks #CommunityUpdate #MichiganNews #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  36. Putin Hints at Possible US-Russia Nuclear Arms Deal

    Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday the U.S. is making “sincere efforts” to end the war in Ukraine and suggested both nations could strike a nuclear arms control deal as part of a broader push for peace.

    👉 Read the full story for the latest developments: bluewaterhealthyliving.com/new

    #Putin #Russia #UnitedStates #NuclearArms #ArmsControl #UkraineWar #GlobalSecurity #Diplomacy #PeaceTalks #WorldNews #GBSMedia #NewMedia

  37. A Guide to New Indie Web Media (Partial)
    It's a scary yet hopeful time for web media. As it must periodically, the hard fist of capitalism has let a number of very talented individuals slip out of its grip, and they've started their own little ramshackle internet presences to try to slice themselves out a sliver of the money pie.

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    setsideb.com/a-guide-to-new-we
    #indies #404Media #aftermath #defector #DumbIndustries #indie #NewMedia #secondwind #secretbase #web