Post 579 Goes PoP!

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Let's Celebrate with Bubble Wrap...

The Old Fogey!

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'Pop' Icon: Bubble Wrap Turns 50

It's the last Monday in January and that means 

it's officially Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day.

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And Over 250 Facebook pages are dedicated to Bubble Wrap.

The Company that made it 50 Years ago, Sealed Air, thought 

it would be used as Wallpaper.

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 From NPR:

Link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122937636

Podcast and RSS Feeds For NPR.

Podcast: http://www.npr.org/templates/rss/podlayer.php?id=1051

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Yeah, There's an App for it!

Link: http://iphoneappdemos.tv/2009/03/bubblewrap/

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And then there was 2: Saints, Colts That's just Super!

Lakers Visit Obama at the White House, 

Lakers Play the Washington Wizards Tonight.

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Wingman

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Twitter Effect: Did New Media Do Hillary In?

From the beginning of the campaign it appeared that the Obama Team was more Tech savy than the Hillary Team. Internet, text messaging and even Twitter played a resounding role in this campaign.

I personally found it easy to "follow" Obama on Twitter. I tried the same for Hillary and was dismayed by the number of choices that seemed scatter-gun rather than focused.

A few days after following Obama, I received a Twitter that Obama was "Following Me". That simple action, was a stroke of genius. And a deft realization of the Power of New Media.

Not many are aware of the social gathering tools, such as Twitter, and how to use them to best advantage. It appears the Obama Team did, and used it a a critical point in the campaign.

New Media (the Internet, and Social Networking) will beat Old Media every time, and points to the need to be New Media savy.

elobopper at : mediacircus2.blogspot.com

Sunday Politics and Defining Terms

As I began my morning breakfast, I pondered on the following:

Maybe it's time I gave a definition of terms, specifically: Media Circus.

Circus is pretty easy. At a circus, a lot of things are happening at the same time. Five rings, and a lot of clowns all over the place. You may not know it but there is nothing worse than a media clown.

It's a circus.

Thus, it's sometimes hard to take it all in. And even harder to focus on the total meaning. It becomes a form of gestalt, where the whole means a lot more than the sum of its parts.

MEDIA is very inclusive in my definition. To me it began with the mass media analyses by Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980), and his book: The Medium is the Massage. [message fits too!].

That's a good start, but it also has to do with Media Transmission of the message which is becoming a Circus of it's own.

To paraphrase a popular AD, "More Taste, Less filling...". Less Text, more Tidbits.

We digest less information as we take in more sound-bites.

The Media IS (more important than) THE MESSAGE, not the substance.

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OBAMA announces his running for President on the WEB, not a press conference.

FACE THE NATION had 3 of the reporters that quit their respective newspapers to form a New Political WEB SITE called POLITICO.COM which begins this tuesday.

Hilary announces she too is running for the Presidency, by Press Conference.

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