Tag: Politics
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Knight/Princess/Dragon: More on the importance of story structure.
Knight/Princess/Dragon. In business/marketing/advertising, Cluetrain/Hughtrain style: The story of your company sells your product. Tell us why your product will better hook us into our ideals, into our more efficient day, into ourselves, into our own narrative. Tell us where your product fits into that narrative we write for ourselves. In government/politics: The story of your…
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All conversations are stories.
SO – Yesterday I threw up my gut reaction to the Pat Tillman bamboozle, including some of what I wrote when the story broke. The reason the friendly-fire truth of the story was covered up? Because the “fallen hero” angle made for a better story. It plugs right into our collective unconscious mythic tagging system,…
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Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire and the Army knew.
Today’s Washington Post reports the Army was perfectly aware that Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire, but covered it up.
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Uncensored: Flag-Draped Coffins via Flickr
The U.S. military thought that it would be easier to keep public opinion about the war in Iraq from degenerating into a Vietnam-type situation by censoring images of dead soldiers returning to the States. During Vietnam, the flag-draped coffins of the soldiers who were actually out there dying every day for whatever we fight wars…
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[JtB] 3.0: David Pescovitz
I’m posting my revised notes from last night’s Joining The Blogosphere event at San Jose State University. This is the third of four panel members. My input is in italics. David Pescovitz ran down a brief history of BoingBoing, the single most read blog around. In the 1980s, the diffusion of the PC lead to…
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[JtB] 2.0: Jude Barry
Jude Barry on the role of blogs in politics: We want to be able to talk to each other, not filtered through the channels of consolidated media.
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[JtB] 1.0: Chuck Olsen
Chuck Olsen thought digital video might put the power to make media into the hands of the masses. But there was something missing: interconnection.
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First Impressions of the Joining the Blogosphere [JtB] Event
A quick note now – much more coming later. The panel was diverse enough to touch on issues of journalism, politics, and technology – I thought it was a good (not great) introduction to what blogging can do. I would have liked someone to be plugged into a projector with their laptop, though, so at…
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Joining the Blogosphere Event In A Bit
Getting my ideas together for the Joining the Blogosphere shindig here briefly… Some questions I have going in: What does Jude Barry see as the political potential of blogs? Will every candidate start using them as a way to get their unmediated authentic voice out? Or is it enough to use the Howard Dean methodology…
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DennisKucinich.us feed watch…
Regular readers of this blog (I’m talking to you, Mom) might recall that 12 days ago I checked out the shiny new web presence for one of my favorite politicians, Dennis Kucinich. Dennis had no feeds. I asked his volunteers/web monkeys to Feed Me. They said they were working on it. 12 days later, still…