This is the first book I remember that uses "Laws" for the structure of the content. Since then you see it frequently and I used it recently to write about the Seven Laws of Blogging. So even the structure has had an influence.
Obviously, you can buy the recent edition of the book from Amazon, but you'll miss the poems by ... and the comments from Sallie Rasberry. So I suggest looking for the original edition.
On the web Seeing Money has a list of the laws.
Recent thinking about McLuhan suggests that you must read him like a poet and not as an English professor. This is a good approach towards his middle books. However, I think even today people can pick up and read Understanding Media, his best known and early work, or The Laws of Media, his last work. And I suggest you do.
In the 90s, McLuhan was rediscovered mostly because he was annointed the Patron Saint of Wired magazine, which is an example of how his ideas still apply today. Another is that terrorists use violence because they have no identity. I could go on.
The official McLuhan site is a good place to start on the web. The recent film, not yet on DVD, McLuhan's Wake is also good. I'm working on a "lesson plan" for a Culture, Technology and Laws of Media class that should make it onto the web in the next year. (maybe in a wiki).
So McLuhan is my primary influence.
I plan to highlight authors, musicians, tools and more. And there may be some events and more. You'll see over the next four weeks.
Ben Cohen, of Ben & Jerry's fame, has done a brilliant Flash video for TrueMajority, a political advocacy organization. It discusses the budget situation in terms of Oreo cookie stacks, and presents some very good arguments for shifting just a little money (only a few cookies) from our &$#*% military budget over to education, children's healthcare, and alternative energy. Good job Ben. And your Cherry Garcia ain't half bad either ;)
Need to start working on that Atom<=>RSS translator. Or find it already on the web....
...but FeedReader won't read the file. Sucks.
I think you need to close the loop on this malformed feeds.First, in preferences you should be able to say as a user if you will accept bad feeds. If you don't want them, then the old pop-up works fine. If you are willing to accept bad feeds, the the approach on a single pop up when subscribing is fine.
The reason I like this approach is that the author will know that they will lose some number of subscribers if their feeds are bad. This add incentive to make good feeds.
Second, to completely close the loop, the author needs to know. I suggest including the author's email address in the pop up so as a user I can immediately let the author know that I don't appreciate bad feeds. This will be real incentive.
On the gift was a preprinted mailing label with the web address for Richard D. Herring's Weblog. This will be a great way to get caught up. So now there are two Bucknellians' blogs in my template.
