Category Archives: Culture

It was eight years ago today

Posted: April 20, 2007: 11:19 am MDT Denver CO In 1999 I was the Electronic Communications Manager for US West’s internal comm group, and my team rode herd on several channels used to communicate with 44,000 employees in 14 states and DC. Mornings were usually really busy – we posted things when they happened, but we did a big daily

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The WTC Memorial Debate and the End of the Age of the Big Target

(Warning: Reality is never as neat and clean as theory, I’m afraid, but humans are inherently theoretical animals. So bear with me. The following may be a tad obscure in places, but it’s going somewhere worthwhile.) University of Texas-Dallas Professor Frederick Turner has penned an interesting take on the current WTC memorial debate, and makes some very well-considered arguments about

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The Long View: Enlightenment Ideologies of Science and Technology and the Internet Debate

Remarks presented to the 1st International Summit on Electronic Communication & Culture Popular Culture Association National Conference Electronic Communication Area San Antonio, Texas March 26-29, 1997 Samuel R. Smith Center for Mass Media Research School of Journalism & Mass Communication University of Colorado Over the past few years the Internet has become one of the most talked-about innovations in our

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