Robert K. Blechman’s "Twitstery Twilogy" comprised of the novels "Executive Severance," "The Golden Parachute," and "I Tweet, Therefore I Am" are a unique and innovative example of the Twitte...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2023/04/chatgpt-reviews-twitstery-twilogy-with.html
Generally higher tax rates after WWII made public goods like affordable education and necessary public works a possibility. The post-war GI Bill sent many to college who would never have been a...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2021/12/an-argument-for-forgiving-student-debt.html
Media Literacy is a misleading term. First of all media “literacy” is a partial oxymoron. While you can become “literate” in chirographic (alphabetic) or print media, by definition you ...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2021/09/media-literacy-and-quantisation-of.html
All cultures manufacture consent, ie. a shared mythology, employing the medium of communication available to them. Time binding cultures set their rules and beliefs in a durable medium like s...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2021/08/todays-media-ecology-lesson.html
Here at last in one post are all the great reviews, awards and notices for EXECUTIVE SEVERANCE! First there Andrey Miroshnichenko's review "Twitterature – Enjoying Literature in Bit s " wh...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-compendium-of-executive-severance.html
All ghost stories are optimistic, not scary. They assume we continue after death, even if our afterlife ambitions always seem to be fixated on afflicting or terrorizing the living. If you wer...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-halloween-thought.html
Keep in mind that Putin isn't as smart as he thinks he is. For his social media machinations to be really effective, we should never have found out about them, but we did -- in real time. Muelle...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2018/07/putins-coup-has-already-failed.html
The Statue of Liberty protest was all about optics, not disruption.The people whose vacations were disrupted were random tourists from all over the world, not Trump policy makers or even his sup...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-statue-of-liberty-protest-as-pseudo.html
Funny how Nicholas Carr's "How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds " in the October 6, 2017 1 issue of the Wall Street Journal echoes Socrates who believed that writing would also weaken our intellec...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2017/10/response-to-nicholas-carrs-how.html
My former wife is native Venezuelan and I met her while we were both in graduate school in New York City in the 70's. We would watch American TV and I would have to explain the culturally-based h...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2017/09/a-note-about-american-racism-we-are-all.html
Why the recent global fascination with the super hero genre? Is it just the advances in CGI allows realistic portrayals of unrealistic abilities? I don't think so. I think as a culture we are c...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2017/08/why-are-we-fascinated-with-super-heroes.html
When I was young and people asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always replied "First man on the moon." Then Neil Armstrong beat me to it and I never got over it. Now I'm too old for spa...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2017/07/why-we-progressives-are-against.html
Before we condemn Bill Maher we should consider the fact that we are ALL racists. He is a racist. You are a racist. I am a racist. That I am an unconscious racist was brought home to me when I...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2017/06/about-bill-mahers-comment.html
Just watched Trump inaugural manager Tom Barrack on Meet the Press. Barrack is a slick character, good at twisting the truth to put lipstick on a pig. I think the Trump he described exists only i...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2017/01/trump-advisor-tom-barrack-puts-lipstick.html
Please enjoy at a special introductory price and then post your review here on Amazon! Never has there been a more timely book or a more timely acknowledgement of there being a more timely m...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2017/01/i-tweet-therefore-i-am-launches-this_12.html
Click to link to Amazon I deal extensively with some of the implications of the Singularity in "I Tweet, Therefore I Am" (available January 16, pre-order now!) but I admit I didn't think of man...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2017/01/machinegenation-humans-marrying-robots.html
Why settle for a fake real president when we can have a real fake president? Reboot the West Wing! http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/reboot-the-west-wing … #neverTrump
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2017/01/sign-petition-demanding-reboot-of-west.html
Social media can best be understood according to the notion of "the emancipation of authorship" proposed by Andrey Miroshnevchenko. All the hiccups, antagonisms and politically incorrect posterin...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2017/01/understanding-social-media-through.html
For better or worse we are entering a time of human/machine symbiosis known as the Age of the Centaur. This term comes from the chess world which has always seen the computer as a challenge to ...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-age-of-centaur.html
Steve Almond of The Boston Globe Misuses Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" to Slam Jon Stewart The Boston Globe , May 16, 2016 Steve Almond , the author of this Boston Globe column,...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2016/05/jon-stewart-enabler-of-donald-trump-by.html
COMPARING MARSHALL MCLUHAN'S TETRAD AND CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS'S CANONICAL FORMULA Abstract The figure-ground structure of a four part approach to analyzing media, merging McLuhan's "Laws of the...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2015/07/things-come-in-fours.html
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2015/07/intro-to-communication-and-media.html
Willum Mortimus Granger is still dead. How then is he standing, larger than life, at the entrance to my office? “Knock knock” he proffers Knock knock? When I last saw Granger he was def...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-golden-parachute-chapter-1-same.html
Mystery novel told in 140-character chapters By Terry Scileppi January 9, 2015 In fact, when his body was found, the top half was right next to the bottom. So begins author Bob Blechman'...
http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-novel-approach-queen-times-ledger.html