cameronr:

thedailywhat:

Disgruntled Employee of the Day: An anonymous Toronto Star editor upset over Star publisher John Cruickshank’s decision to outsource union editing jobs to freelancers expresses her displeasure the best way he/she knows how: By marking up the internal memo notifying employees of said decision.

Embiggen.

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pieto:

Communication serves first of all to make war. However, outside periods of hostilities, which foster a wealth of analyses and deploy them in the service of armies, war has traditionally constituted a blind spot in thought about communication. Confining the notion of communication to the entertainment industry in peacetime is merely the latest way of sti­fling examination of the relation between communication and war. Reading manuals on psychological warfare intended for the armed forces tells us more about the subject than most textbooks with which future professionals in communications learn the rudiments of their field.

from Mapping World Communication: War Progress Culture - Armand Mattelart (1994)

This is a very challenging and enlightening book, and I recommend it to all students of media and communications. That being said, it took me years to appreciate it after having it, and other texts, ruined by a horrible professor.

“The Peculiar Logic of Remote Control Design”
(article via frog/design mind)

cameronr:

50 Most Tweeted Brands

You know how I can tell this “study” isn’t entirely accurate because the brand Gucci cannot possibly be mentioned as much as the rapper Gucci Mane.