Mediacology

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Erik Assadourian from the World Watch Institute introduces the 2010 edition of the State of the World (you can download some chapters for free here, or purchase PDF of the whole book for less than $10). The presentation style may not zing like TED, but I think it’s worth cribbing some notes, especially [...]

These days you can’t trust anything on the net, so the story of a new sex Robot that also spews 9/11 conspiracy theory sounds too much like a viral prank. So let this be my disclaimer. Meanwhile, watch the video and judge for yourself. The conspiracy sex talk comes in after the second minute. No [...]

Apologies for being part of Burger King’s viral campaign. I have been victimized once again by my own outrage. Anyhow, just to restate the obvious, who has more girth here?
Click here for more info about the offending ad.

Computers were invented in African. Really.

This article was sitting in my backlog, so I thought I’d shoot it out there. I had read some interesting critiques of the Vanity Fair Africa issue that confirmed my suspicion that the goodwill gesture of celebrities to highlight problems in Africa was furthering the racist construct that Africans cannot speak for themselves (Boing Boing [...]