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Forum Post Zunes: Herman distorts the facts

Forum Post, December, 19 2010 Stephen Zunes
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First of all, Herman knows damn well that I am NOT part  First of all, Herman knows damn well that I am NOT part of a “clique [which] only takes an interest in the ‘democratic’ potential of countries when the ‘U.S....

Forum Post Bertoe: Re: Re: Re: Facebook Vs Civilization

Forum Post, December, 16 2010 Olivier Bertoe
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Sorry for the late reply. It took me a while to think this over. It's becoming longish, too. I hope i'm not hijacking this thread. > I hope you don't mind if I first suggest that you ought to post your comment as a full blog - so ...

Forum Post Small: Like Mailer on Television

Forum Post, December, 14 2010 Brian Small
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The Carr quote and discussion so far motivated me to search for Norman Mailer on Narrative and Television commercials.. Here's Norman Solomon on Znet quoting Mailer in 2005, worried about concentration and attention.. "With the advent of...

Forum Post Lewis: Tools to Filter

Forum Post, December, 14 2010 Alexander Lewis
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just read your previous article and had a couple thoughts, but instead will integrate that into a response here, perhaps working backwards a bit.   a couple things stood out to me in the end notes... the reference to Taylorism and Googl...

Forum Post Jones: the role of the media

Forum Post, December, 10 2010 Douglas Jones
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Probably I have misinterpreted this piece but is it implying that this new source poses information overload, a level of accuracy which profit oriented media espouses reducing the cost of investigative reporting, accepting,(70% it is said) of gove...

Forum Post Sudyk: Re: I would like....

Forum Post, December, 10 2010 Brandy Sudyk
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Si, Seniore!  :)

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Facebook Vs Civilization

Forum Post, December, 09 2010 Michael Albert
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Hi,   I hope you don't mind if I first suggest that you ought to post your comment as a full blog - so it gets seen by more folks. Second, can I ask where you are from, and you mention being a programmer - is it your job?  &n...

Forum Post Bertoe: Re: Facebook Vs Civilization

Forum Post, December, 08 2010 Olivier Bertoe
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Immensely liked your essay. I read it twice, the second time almost in one go ! And the comments, too. Sadly though, that did take me lots of compulsive switching to other things in between. But seriously, i appreciate how involved you are in part...

Forum Post Govender: Re: Re: Re: Re: My reaction isn't mixed!

Forum Post, December, 07 2010 Indira Govender
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During apartheid South Africa, most of the hate crimes were committed by brainwashed foot soldiers acting as puppets for statesmen. Perhaps this is a pattern throughout history that those who see through the facade are less likely to partake in...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: science attention span and an alternative explanation

Forum Post, December, 05 2010 Michael Albert
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Matt,   > Where does the snowball land?  That (was) is my problem.    How would I know? I am just introducing a possibility that I hope is in fact not there or not strong - not providing a finished conclusive descr...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Facebook Vs Civilization

Forum Post, December, 05 2010 Michael Albert
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Hi Jason -    I heard London is under the weather - cold weather - has it gotten any warmer...you doing okay with it?   You write, "Are there harmful effects of using social networking sites like facebook? yes. Is fac...

Forum Post Grinder: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: science attention span and an alternative explanation

Forum Post, December, 05 2010 Matt Grinder
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>However, unless I am remembering very wrong, you wrote that the whole idea of the way we are now increasingly interacting online being really very serious because it could affect our minds and our inclinations in a snowballing pattern reducing...

Forum Post Chrysostomou: Re: Facebook Vs Civilization

Forum Post, December, 05 2010 Jason Chrysostomou
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Are there harmful effects of using social networking sites like facebook? yes. Is facebook precipitating the end of civilization? no, I don't think so. I think currently the benefits of online social networking far outweigh the costs. We are...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: science attention span and an alternative explanation

Forum Post, December, 05 2010 Michael Albert
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Matt, Sorry for any misunderstanding... However, unless I am remembering very wrong, you wrote that the whole idea of the way we are now increasingly interacting online being really very serious because it could affect our minds and our inclinat...

Forum Post Grinder: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: science attention span and an alternative explanation

Forum Post, December, 05 2010 Matt Grinder
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(****this is a short post so please read the whole thing before replying) >Nope. You misinterpreted. Civilization ending was a way of emphasizing my concern. Yes. What does the phrase even mean in any technical or precise sense? It is merely a...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: science attention span and an alternative explanation

Forum Post, December, 04 2010 Michael Albert
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Okay, I will at least start out to reply the way you request...without the quoting...etc.   Let me first address your complaint - which is that I address comments - and I often do it in email too - line by line or paragraph by paragraph...

Forum Post Grinder: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: science attention span and an alternative explanation

Forum Post, December, 03 2010 Matt Grinder
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>Okay, though why so few sentences - I decided to use five, and a little redundancy, instead of four. It's something my philosophy professor used to make us do.  Summarize what Arisotle (suppose) was saying in chapter 1 in a few s...

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Forum Post, December, 03 2010 Michael Albert
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Fair enough!

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: science attention span and an alternative explanation

Forum Post, December, 03 2010 Michael Albert
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Matt,   I am afraid the confusion about what is wrong in the quote persists - it isn't the attribution of concern, or what your summary says I am worried about happening. You got that okay, basically, at least for a quick summary, s...

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Forum Post, December, 03 2010 Andrej Grubacic
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cyn is right. we should drop this. we are running in circiles. you are right to say that "Well you have nightmares about what irks you. I will have them about what irks me." I think that is probably the reason behind this whole exchange....

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