A time of extremes as politics mixed with pop culture: Drowning Private Blogger Imrich Culture At War - The Year Pop Culture Was Politics
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Media Dragon Dynasties of ‘45 AD
Who loses in sex in the city where the tv talent circus is looking pretty threadbare, and the ones trying to do the freak show aspect of it are looking silly?
There are worse combinations, we suppose, but looking back at what should have been a year of serious debate and international soul-searching, 2004 was instead a year in which television went from covering news in an insipid manner to actually creating its very own insipid storylines which were then imposed on the world with an unforgivable seriousness. "Both in Canada and the United States, television not only reported the news and created hit shows, it also became the news. The sex was more implied than dramatized. The stupidity was to be found in the fuss about it."
• The Year of Sex & Stupidity
• · Everybody is scratching their heads about the money-making opportunity with blogging BlogBridge is a new kind of Cold River Blog reader; [Paul Cosway intends to drag the transistor radio into the Internet age It's the 'pure entrepreneur' who often leads the way]
• · · Sex and The Spectator: Scandals Turn the Tables Someone should bottle that magazine's tap water
• · · · The siren call of the digital home has computer and entertainment giants jockeying to colonize your living room with slick new gadgets and services. That means a confusing 2005 for most of us, but a happy hunting ground for gizmo lovers Early Adopters' Paradise
• · · · · If we all hate consumerism, how come we can’t stop reading? What we need to see is that consumption is not about conformity, it's about distinction! People consume in order to set themselves apart from others... It is often claimed that a growing economy is like the rising tide of the unique Cold River that lifts all boats. But a growing economy does not create more antiques, more rare art, or more downtown real estate, it just makes them more expensive. Many of us fail to recognize how much of our consumption is devoted to these positional goods. Understanding the Rebel Reader; [Pricenoia is an international Amazon price comparison engine. Search, click the link of the correct result, and compare prices Go buy it!!! ! !!!]
• · · · · · Google goes in search of the neverending Cold River