tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32639912012-01-22T10:40:06.175-08:00<a href="http://www.lulu.com/mythville">Print-on-Demand Books and eBooks</a> <br> Also at: www.iuniverse.com and amazon.com<br> <a href="http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0%2D595%2D19947%2DX">Click Here</a><br> <br> or contact<br> <a href="mailto:mythville@gmail.com">mythville@gmail.com</a>Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comBlogger411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263991.post-35819645530071724462011-04-30T06:24:00.000-07:002011-04-30T06:58:16.617-07:00

Somewhere Over the Technophobe Need a News Story Now Rant Rainbow"Obama Administration punishes reporter for using multimedia : Bronstein at Large" www.sfgate.com "The hip, transparent and social media-loving Obama administration is showing its analog roots." ~ Bronstein at Large By Douglas McDaniel  It's very hard to tell if anything of significance went on with the link and headline

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De fine dishonor: Artistic self-promotion on Facebook Trying to self-publish oneself is pretty much like trying to overcome the Tower, in a "nut sell" nutshell universe for the fleet of the damned. We are ahead by a century, the Tragically Hip once sang, and the disappointment is getting us down. But take heart, my friend. The nature of facey spacey is ever changing. A thing of nature, it

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Here are today's stats from yesterday's Tweeter Bowl, sponsored by Big Sexy Beer Compiled and Completely Lacking in Any Editing as Also Written in Completely the Wrong Disorder by Our Static ... hmmm ... Tician ... Douglas McDaniel ... Who Was Never Near the Game Only Watching it From His Anxious Easy Chair Somewhere in Mythville, America Dot Calm ...

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     In networked society, where a national pundit's demise on a network feels like an assassination attempt, a coup, or some other kind of lavish conspiracy, the departure of Keith Olbermann from MSNBC is trending on the web like a percolating master plan to which the players, and they only, have the decoder ring.      For example, is Keith Olbermann going into exile on Twitter? It would seem

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       And now for a few notes on trying to find a Fellini film in dumbed-down Mythoamericapotamia      Walking through the Family Video stores in southeastern Iowa, we notice a curious lack of something. There seems to be a narrowing down of the port of access to certain kinds of films. And if you look at what's going on in media outlets across the land, you'll notice the same things: If media

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Let Glenn Beck Slink Away from This Somehow ...Fox News is getting increasingly nullified by mere outpourings of  recoveries of their own hateful drivel and paranoia ... I sense the beginning of the end for this errant species of national media ... I hope ...  We in the media criticism business, who often analyze events off of the top of the roofs of our dirty little mouths that roar, are all

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   'The Social Network'  Hot type, cold blood and greed on the singed, if golden globe             In reviewing the new DVD of the brilliant, fast-paced film, "The Social Network," one can dispense with the actual activities in the movie, other than to say, yeah, it's fine, it's a great film, but more importantly, it's a fine effort in the art of inter- (and outer-) contextuality. Also, you

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With no apologies to Marshall McLuhan Right now I have, in my filthy little electronic hands, a copy of the new DVD, out this week, "The Social Network." I was going to see it in a local movie theater, but they are so hard to find, in the areas I used to live, in fact one of the movie theaters actually had a fire and then closed ... I never got around to it. But now I have it. So

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Bees at the Bank, Hollywood Hung, Let Me Sing of Things As They Come Undone ...Outside the Hollywood Video Store in another annonomall in the Valley of the Shunned, a young brunette girl with a slightly goth look but intelligent eyes behind Sarah Palin specks was weeping. Stumbling up to her, I noticed she was leaning on the wall, smoking violently. "It's so sad," she said. "They are closing on

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Gloom fest'2012' feeds off energy of jittery audience To believe in the apocalypse, or to not believe in the apocalypse in 2012? This is now no longer the question due to the mind’s eye of film director Roland Emmerich, director of the mega-blockbuster DVD, "2012." By all grim appearances in accordance with his work, 2012, that big blowout year in the Mayan calendar is a vivid and

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Bards of Mythville official page

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Facebook | Douglas McDaniel

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Get out of the rain: indoor picks for Tuesday of SXSW

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Meet the real Harry Potter

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Going old tech for the entertainment amps during the Great Recession of 2009

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Media arts in war#breadcrumb

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Phoenix Performing Arts Examiner

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A decade ago global multimedia convergence was merely a moon shot business paradigm, an open-ended concept flying right off the edge of the known world. For the machine mind, lacking the bandwidth to make all human expression available to the consuming audience, it was like an oversized Great Pumpkin being push through a hand-cranked meat grinder. It was only for a fortunate elite of prosumer

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Take the road to Mythville ...Mythville MetaMedia - Lulu.com

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Are Publishers Finding IBookstore Terms Hard to Swallow? - PCWorld

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Why the iPad Will be the E-books Battle Arena - Yahoo! News

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A funny thing happened on the way to renting 'Capitalism: A Love Story'

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YouTube - topicaltechno2020's Channel

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What's the frequency, Kenneth, at NBC for the evening content shuffle?

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Kindle This: Decade long e-book quest is print-on-demand cautionary taleGet 'Forty Days of Fire, Forty Days of Rain,' a living novel by Douglas McDaniel:

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Alejandro Escovedo's 'Real Animal'lives up to its billing, title, passion and all the rest ..."Always a Friend," is like some guideline to practical relationships in an age of social networking ... sharper ... "Chelsea Hotel," faster if muddier, image-laden, darker, a specialty for Escovedo with it's careening solos, lots of stuff rolling by about an incredulous crowd, a chorus hinting at the

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This is poetry about transformation, about living things breathing, despite themselves, and then, thriving to catch up. But we, in fact, never catch up. The act of writing poetry is the act of never catching up to those heartbeats. Never catching up. Never. We lead busy lives. No time to catch up. Somewhere along the line, then again, more often not, poetry gets written. But if the point is some

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How to Pitch to New Times, Part IDear Editor,Here is my new essay, titled "Film-In-The-Buff," explaining why I should write the ditty for the Oct. 5 issue of New Times about the 2006 Scottsdale Film Fesitval:"How's this for Six Degrees of Separation: Former Scottsdale Progress film critics who are not named Kevin Bacon, Francie Noyes and Nick Salerno, are moderators for this year's Scottsdale

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23 Roads to MythvilleAn apocalyptic journey across America and meditation on the imposition of order in space, both cyber and dirt real. By experiential author Douglas McDaniel, who explores the mysteries of American networked life. Read more Ipswich at WarA few days after Sept. 11, 2001, poet and essayist Douglas McDaniel moved to Ipswich, on the North Shore of Massachusetts. A collection of

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23 Roads to Mythville

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Mythville

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Viewers used to seeing dragons and hobbits and wizards leaping around might be a bit dazed, or even sent into a bit of a stupor, after watching “Tristan & Isolde,” a new film based on a medieval legend.The legend stems from oral storytelling traditions, and there are many versions of the story for that reason.But one can see how, in the twists and turns, and especially in its tragi-romantic

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During the 1960s, the world was asked to take a “sad song, and make it better” by the Beatles. And by another high-water mark from the era, “The Graduate” we learned from the iconoclastic film that if you were a young man looking for a career, there was one thing, and one thing only, to look into: “Plastics.”The director of “Rumor Has It ...,” Rob Reiner was a member of that generation, and the

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OK, we get it. The big ape climbs up the Empire State Building and swats at 1920s era bi-plane aircraft. It's just like "The Titanic," with the most horrible thing imaginable happening at the end.Why should anyone need to see a remake of "King Kong," this time directed by Peter Jackson, who won a warehouse worth of Oscars for his "Lord of the Rings" trilogy? Is the trick for success in this kind

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If, while watching “Syriana,” a film about the global oil industry by writer / director Stephen Gaghan, you begin to feel overwhelmed by the storylines and imagery thrown in front of your eyes, do not despair: It’s just a form of motion sickness. Or maybe information overload?If you have trouble figuring out who the hero is in this story, don’t feel too bad. Angels and demons can often be seen in

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Based on the tease of the best-selling novel of the same name, “Memoir of a Geisha” would seem to have the kind of R-rated allure that’s getting pretty rare in mainstream cinema these days.But alas, this film can’t even get that right. With its PG-13 rating, the movie is just a lightweight romance with some drama, but not very much.In fact, more than anything else, it suffers from a lack of

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Glasnost Lost by Douglas McDaniel (Book) in Books > Fiction & Literature

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Newszap.com, the revamped online outlet for Independent Newspapers, is, among other things, an eyesore. But it works. And, it is simple to use. If you want to blog, it is a good place to begin. However, if you are looking for something more communal, better wait: Most people who have signed up have no idea how to post up. This is due to the fact the architects of this thing, amateurs at best

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Google Search: Mythville

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The North Shore Mega Media War A Terrible Beauty is Born By Douglas McDaniel Mythville MetaMedia Seth Butler, out of a concern for air pollution on North Shore of Massachusetts and a need to burn film for a photo essay for a class at Montserrat College, loaded a roll of film and fired. He pointed his weapon, a truth-telling device, at the churned and weathered brown spires of the

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