Sundays are made for easy ambles. Wander through the blogs with me and see what we shall see.

Jeff Tompkins tries his hand at writing movie taglines that live up to the caliber of Flash of Genius.

Allison digs for details on the new movie theater in Park Circle.

Victoria is compiling a list of entrepenuerial sites by Park West residents.

Eugene has had his hands full with his new foster dog.

Lynn Mettler is asking where did you see the SNL Sarah Palin skits? Was it on NBC, Hulu, or elsewhere?

Want to put 700 billion dollars in perspective?

DH is Good check’s out Granville’s:

Murphy ponders adoption and faith:

I was adopted as an infant, and what’s interesting is that when I share that with people, I typically get the same response; “Really? I had no idea!”. I’ve never really understood that response. Should there have been some odd characteristic in my personality that would have already given it away? Should I walk with a limp or have a facial tick that might cause the casual observer to ask, “By chance, were you adopted?” The truth is that I dont’ ever remember a time that I didn’t know that I was adopted… my mom had a way of explaining things to me and my adopted sister that we always understood, even at a very young age… so it has never been a big deal with me.

Our final stop is at Xark, where I cannot give Janet’s post enough attention:

But as I am reading and clicking and watching video, I realized that the old order is dead.  Deceased.

Life support may still simulate a heartbeat. But there are no brain waves. We’re just arguing funeral arrangements now.

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. (video)

If information is power, then control of information is ultimate power. It’s what makes media “mass.” It’s what makes noise machines function. It’s what keeps people in line. Malleable.

“Getting the message out” whether that’s in politics or advertising or any kind of propaganda has always relied heavily on the Big Channels, pre-cut, mapped grooves to use in sending information downhill. Open the sluice gate, down it goes. Close the gate, dry it up . Newspapers, radio, television just increased the volume and reach. It didn’t change the underlying structure: One-way, filtered, packaged and timed.

The Digital Revolution is the dynamite that blows that model to kingdom come. Information  is now trickling, pouring, cascading through the hundreds of channels like nothing we’ve ever known. There is no map.  The flow has radically changed and it is no longer controllable. Big Sources can’t trot out the same memes for the MSM to float for the masses and expect uncritical acceptance.

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