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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Election 2008 Does it really get any better than this? PolitiChill's "Super-Duper Tuesday" video was featured by YouTube, getting more than 100,000 views in a few days ... To catch the latest videos check out PolitiChill.com. Sonic Moodswing 2008 will blow you away! Be sure to tune in to the live stream Sunday nights from 7-9 pm as we prove all musical genres have something to offer. We're replayed Fridays from 2-4 pm. Listen Here. Pioneers in a digital landscape Another blog, just what we need, right? But maybe the better question is, why are they suddenly so prevalent and holding more and more sway? What's happening to the way we digest information? Free of the red-tape that hinders brick-and-mortar media, blogs publish information faster, with less filters and from a wider variety of sources. Matt Drudge first published details of the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal on his website, it then spread to every media outlet. A blog called FreeRepublic.com first questioned the veracity of documents used in a CBS News story during the 2004 presidential election, the uproar soon reverberated into the "real world." In the old days, people could throw a shoe at the TV if something seemed unfair or off-kilter. Or maybe they'd scream out their windows like the curmudgeon in Network: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore." Today the "power of the people" is online, and holds as much sway collectively as the media elites themselves. Blogs are also in line with the American tradition of turning to the common people for leadership. In many ways media elites, network stations and giant newspaper conglomerates are like the royalty of the motherland, and bloggers are the pioneers in a new world. To use a textbook-sounding term, blogs are adding to the decentralization of information in the Digital Age. Just as radio is decentralized with hundreds of online and satellite stations and TV with hundreds of channels and growing -- the Digital Age also decentralized news media. The blogs have become not only a new media, but watchdogs of the old media. The traditional watchdogs now have watchdogs. But who will watch the new watchdogs? Let us hope they will be the same collective soul who created blogs in the first place: the common people The End of the Mainstream Digital media scattered American culture into a million pieces. A once unified mainstream transformed into a series of social subgroups and choices: Do we think different? Like the endless rows of the Walmart, digital society opens access to a new world of influences, distractions and empowerment. Just as a catcher's mitt or a hammer enhance physical abilities, the computer enhances and even changes how our minds function. The difference in the digital mind is to think more abstractly, from more perspectives: With our remote-controls and keyboards, we not only surf TV or the Web, we surf reality itself. Reality is a summation of the five senses. The infinite possibilities of our digital environment enables people to change reality like changing a channel. Instead of having one career for life, the digital generations often migrate through multiple career paths, surfing job to job, reality to reality. Digital video recorders like TiVo enable people to select the particular reality of their choosing, or surf several, with no ads or time constraints. Video games enable people to interact with simulated realities that become more lifelike with each new release. The Internet allows people to connect with unique groups or others who share similar lives globally, providing unlimited ways for ordinary citizens to customize their own reality. It doesn't matter what the three big stations are playing, because there are so many other choices. We exist in an entirely different rhythm of time and space. Realities can be simulated, distances shrink with cell phones and Internet connections, time warps in the wireless network. Our own neural networks, which created the digital networks, cannot help but be influenced by our own creations. Thanks for visiting the Joe Moody blogSubscribe to PolitiChill's YouTube Videos! |