I came across a great article on Brain Pickings.org the other day, featuring the Canadian icon of media thought, Marshall McLuhan. You may know McLuhan best for his famous quote “The medium is the message”. I’ve studied McLuhan for about as long as I’ve been involved in media and communications, and if you’re a media…
Category Archives: New Media
The Culture of Free and Why it Needs to Change
I have to get something off my chest. I’m going to try not to sound too ranty, and I really do want to know what you think (especially if you don’t agree). We live in a culture of Free. Free is not bad. But, in order for social business to be successful, many attitudes are…
Want To Be Taken Seriously? It’s Up To You, Tweetheart.
Let me start this one by saying first off that I don’t consider myself a feminist. There. We got that out of the way. I have spent the majority of my career in male-dominated professions. I’ve been the only female camera operator in media scrums (elbows up!), the only woman on the web development team,…
Old Friends. New Media.
Just a few thoughts I had after a lovely evening with an old friend. Old Friends. New Media. from Sue Murphy on Vimeo.
Confessions of a Media Junkie
My business partner and I negotiated late into the night last night and we’ve come to a very critical decision. It wasn’t easy to do, but we know it’s the right thing for us. We’re totally getting some ShamWows. The first step. I have a terrible addiction to media. All kinds of media. Yes, even…
A Word to the Wise About Noise
Remember the Information Superhighway? Hundreds of TV channels. Thousands of radio stations. The world at your fingertips through a telephone line. Information any time, any where, any how. It was a promise of things to come, and it came. With a vengeance. 10 years after the vision of the Info Highway was created, it’s now…
This Changes Everything
As Americans head to the polls today, I am struck by something that I think is pretty profound. For the first time, the Internet is really changing the way this election day is unfolding. Not just for Americans, but for everyone. Sitting up here in the Great White North, I often wonder why the U.S….
How Labels Make Us Miss the Point
Labels. Our world is consumed by attaching labels to things, and then identifying with those labels entirely, to the point where the entire meaning of what that thing represents is lost. Consider politics. Our politicians are depicted in both Canada and the U.S. based on labels. It’s not how well they can do the job,…
CNN Wants YOU!
A 4.0 earthquake rattled the San Francisco area last night. I was up late, hanging out on Twitter when it happened. I follow many people on Twitter from the San Fran area, so the sudden influx of earthquake-related tweets was at once fascinating and a bit disconcerting. Fortunately, it was a minor quake and there…
CBC Radio 2 Gets With the Times
This Fall, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is making what some would call a radical shift in its programming of CBC Radio 2. Traditionally a classical music station Radio 2 has been looking for ways to expand its audience. This new transformation of the programming line up is making a break away from classical music in…
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