In Harmonium

Being in the main the musings of a Symbolic Anthropologist

More thoughts on media massaging

| February 1, 2010

A week ago, I posted about the medium is the message vs. massage and used a couple of YouTube Videos from the Ottawa Back Choir as example.  On Saturday, I was over for dinner at an old friend’s house and he showed me one of his favourite YouTube recording artists: Pamplamoose Music.  As he showed [...]

Lexical tyranny and the misuse of concepts

| August 23, 2009

I got back two days ago from the TRADOC Senior Leaders Conference, and I am still mulling over the implications of what I saw there.  I have a rather peculiar way to “mull things over” – I set part of my mind in semi-autonomous mode and let it pick away at it until something “appears” [...]