My Mind on Media

I’ve always thought about media. Sometimes, maybe my thoughts are behind the times.
Other times, I’m wondering who else in this world is having similar thoughts.

Maybe
it’s all because I recently finished Neil Postman’s
Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Maybe it’s because of the topsy turviness happening all around us. Maybe, I haven’t
found, yet, the one person who’s looking at, and talking about, media in the same
context.

Maybe if you know of someone you can let me know.

Bye bye Digg Reader

Another rss reader is biting the dust.

Digg Reader if shutting down on March 26, 2018. Bummer, we know. Export and
download your feeds ad folder from digg.com/settings and you can add those to
another reader product. Don’t worry! you can grab your feeds after Reader is gone.

Ok – where to next?

Going pinboard

I miss the old del.icio.us. Yes, they have fumbled through the ownerships and are still running, but not the same. Maybe it’s a vintage thing. I am 40, with a child on the way, I guess that’s what you do.

I’ve gone to Pinboard.

Sparse

Simple

Classic.

And Like posts – I know I’ve bookmarked things between 2014 and now. Maybe I’ll see if I can find those too.

For now feel free to follow there, or just look at the new Finds page.

Science Fiction should be far fetched

Most of the Sci Fi I watch now, I think…

“Ya – I can see that happening.”

Black Mirror has done too good of a job at laying out the plausible.

Even after watching Altered Carbon.

I still don’t think most is that far fetched. And I think it should be.

I’ve seen glimpses that surprised me. Yet still – I’m thinking in my grand
children’s time, maybe.

Maybe I’ve been watching too much…

Maybe I can’t watch the kind of Sci Fi that I’m looking for.

I’ve been sitting on the genre sidelines too long. Time to pick up some books.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

The Archive is done. Now What

It took about 10 days, but I think I’ve uncovered most of the archive. There’s a few files missing, mainly all the mp3’s. I know there’s a laptop around here somewhere with em all.

So now that that’s done…

Now what?

I’ve decided to take an audio break and listen to trains. Yup, trains.

 

My Personality (2018 Edition)

15 Years later and I still like to do my personality test. And it’s changed: Extrovert to Introvert.

Your type is: INFP

“Questor”. High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population.

Type 1 Orderliness |||||| 30%
Type 2 Helpfulness |||||||||||||||||| 73%
Type 3 Image Awareness |||||||||||| 46%
Type 4 Individuality |||||||||||||||| 70%
Type 5 Rationality |||||||||||||| 56%
Type 6 Cautiousness |||||| 30%
Type 7 Adventurousness |||||||||||| 46%
Type 8 Aggressiveness |||||| 30%
Type 9 Calmness |||||||||||||||||| 76%

Your main type is Type 9

Your variant stacking is spsosx

type score type behavior motivation
9 23 I must maintain peace/calm to survive.
2 22 I must be helpful and caring to survive.
4 21 I must be unique/different to survive.
5 17 I must be knowledgeable to survive.
3 14 I must be impressive and attractive to survive.
7 14 I must be fun and entertained to survive.

I’m a bit old school and like to use similarminds.com. I’m a fan of the longer Jung+Enneagram test.

Dystopian Catharsis

Photo by Scott Rodgerson on Unsplash

Do these stories feed us or placate us?

When I read The Hunger Games, for a moment I had hopes that our children where angry. Angry enough to realize what was happening around them. To realize what it meant. Perhaps it’s a quiet revolt stewing in places I don’t see.

Writers and actors want these stories to change us. I commend their bravery to speak out loud, to fight the ancient Leave-It-To-Beaver guard, to try and spark some form of action.

But I fear catharsis.

By the time one hour is up, my anger, fear, desire to act has been purged and released with the scrolling of credits. I know how fiction makes me feel. This feeling has to be because of the show I watched last night. Not because I’m urged to change my world.

What happens when the world isn’t stranger than fiction?


This post was originally published on one of my old blogs. I backdated this to the original publish date.