One of my friends made the recent comment that with the advent of the supplementary material on DVDS, watching movies can require a huge time commitment.  I think it’s mostly a way to use b-roll stuff and justify charging all that money for 50 cent piece of plastic.
The Monterey Pop documentary DVD includes commentary by […]

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Well, It Turns Out That Lonelygirl Really Wasn’t - New York Times
“They were like the new Marshall McLuhan.”
I missed this one…don’t spend enough time at YouTube, I guess. Anyway, it turns out that the teen who has been videocasting from her laptop is actually a 20-something actress who is videocasting from someone else’s laptop.  The […]

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Hermeneutics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hermeneutics may be described as the development and study of theories of the interpretation and understanding of texts, particularly Biblical texts. The concept of “text” is here also extended beyond written documents to any number of objects subject to interpretation. A hermeneutic is defined as a specific system or method […]

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fremonttribune.com, Fremont, Nebraska’s Community Newspaper
Seigenthaler said it took months to get statements about him removed from a Wikipedia page.
This quote is from an article about the most recent Wikipedia flap…a Catholic high school is concerned that someone wrote something bad about them and they are suing Wikipedia.   Tim at Assorted Stuff asks the pertinent […]

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Perloff’s description of Cage’s work helps clearly define modernism and post-modernism:
U B U W E B :: Nancy Perloff “Postmodernism and the Music of John Cage”
In the early 1970s, as we see in the comments quoted above, Cage endorsed collaborative musical performances in which the audience worked together with performers, fusing art with its environment, […]

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