http://aalawrence.com Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:01:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Boston Globe is currently running a 7-part series, "Ted Kennedy," chronicling the history of Sen. Edward Kennedy (D, MA). The special on Ted Kennedy demonstrates the unparalleled resources of a major newspaper. The institutional history and the access it took to produce the series remain the province of the ... http://aalawrence.com/2009/02/16/boston_globe/ It's a title possibility for my thesis. Maybe I'll change my mind. If I do I'll simply come back and delete the entry altogether. How very 1984. Thankfully the title, according to the Emerson College Department Handbook for the Master of Arts in Media Arts Program, 2004-2005 (my official catalog year), ... http://aalawrence.com/2008/09/17/she-works-hard-for-the-whuffie-free-labor-in-the-age-of-peer-production/ The most powerful hybrid of communications and entertainment is "particitainment"—entertaining communications that connects us with some larger purpose or enterprise. - Futurist Paul Saffo, Consumers and Interactive New Media: A Hierarchy of Desires, 1993 I like this term "particitainment." I can already hear my peers groaning at the introduction of another ... http://aalawrence.com/2008/09/08/particitainment-not-a-typo/