We Want Media

Beauty and chaos is a multi-user environment bridging the realms of cyber space and physical space, composing music and generating image within a fixed geographical location based on user data from around the world in real-time.

I know I made fun of the rules on Rosie's blog, but after typing a long response to Ivan's recent entry, I realized it needed to become a separate post. He wrote:

Did anyone else see this article in amNewYork on Wednesday? Summary for lazy nonclickers: Some rental listings on Craigslist offer reduced rent to a female willing to provide sex.

So apparently Rosie has a blog. In fact, she has has one since 2004, but only recently it was moved to a new location and given a makeover. In addition to the usual (y'know, mani, pedi, foils, waxing), a set of "Guidelines for Commenting" are included. Some highlights are....

We all shuddered with anticipation when an email slipped into our inboxes announcing a surprise guest for March 22. Well, at least I did.

Our blog's emphasis is obviously on the text--and it is certainly improving--but does anyone else find themselves a little overwhelmed looking at a homogenious page of titles and excerpts?

My father once gave me two important pieces of business advice: 1. Don't do business with friends or you'll end up with no business or no friends, and 2. Never put anything in print that you wouldn't want other people to read.

I don't own a television and don't feel any particular desire to own one. Yet as a student of communications and an American citizen, I feel somewhat responsible for knowing what's happening on the tube.

While we toss about crazy terms such as "blog" and "blogosphere" and contemplate the future of podcasting and digital journalism, our friends in the poet's corner are coming up with new ways to explain the phenomenon of the Internet as well.

The previous two posts on freedom of speech and media congloms are useful segues into a rather frightening thought: just how far is the Internet from a fate akin to the likes of other media such as radio and television?

When virtually anyone can set up a website and even make a profit, what prestige will a degree from NYU, Columbia, or any other school hold in the future? It is a question of credibility, for one, but also of the value of our educational institutions.