Comments on: Whats wrong with news media? http://pixelplexus.co.za/blog/2007/06/08/whats-wrong-with-news-media/ where some pixels meet for drinks after a hard day Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:06:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Does keeping up with ‘the news’ make us into paranoid parents who cripple their kids? | lotSAreviews http://pixelplexus.co.za/blog/2007/06/08/whats-wrong-with-news-media/comment-page-1/#comment-40677 Does keeping up with ‘the news’ make us into paranoid parents who cripple their kids? | lotSAreviews Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:27:24 +0000 http://pixelplexus.co.za/blog/2007/06/08/whats-wrong-with-news-media/#comment-40677 [...] Here are a few interesting articles. Young ‘not allowed out to play’ Analysis: Rearing children in captivity What’s wrong with news media? [...] [...] Here are a few interesting articles. Young ‘not allowed out to play’ Analysis: Rearing children in captivity What’s wrong with news media? [...]

]]> By: Max Kaizen http://pixelplexus.co.za/blog/2007/06/08/whats-wrong-with-news-media/comment-page-1/#comment-14057 Max Kaizen Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:54:01 +0000 http://pixelplexus.co.za/blog/2007/06/08/whats-wrong-with-news-media/#comment-14057 LOLOLOL.. Max ranting again :-P soz Andre! bit passion8 about this or what?! Have a rockin' weekend LOLOLOL.. Max ranting again :-P soz Andre! bit passion8 about this or what?!

Have a rockin’ weekend

]]> By: Max Kaizen http://pixelplexus.co.za/blog/2007/06/08/whats-wrong-with-news-media/comment-page-1/#comment-14056 Max Kaizen Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:50:55 +0000 http://pixelplexus.co.za/blog/2007/06/08/whats-wrong-with-news-media/#comment-14056 Andre thank you so much for picking this up. [So glad to have come back to your corner of the digital neighbourhood again BTW :: rocking content!] It's been one of the issues that truly bears us down and only serves to increase insecurity. We all <em>know</em> that we don't get out of this game alive. But it's a damn fine idea to focus a little more on those who make their lives a powerful expression of success by changing the world for good than those who've been conned, slaughtered or met some terrifying end. I'm just sickened by the constant pipeline of grisly tales that are addictive because they give us social currency and an emotional/physiological rush.. but it also evokes learned helplessness; where you at at the mercies of accident and crooked leadership. It's like alcohol, which effectively is mild poison, but it shifts us out of our world for a little while. Self-righteousness, shock or frustration that we get from the news fodder is the junk-food on which we've fed for long enough. There are ways out of here. There are trailblazers. I want to hang out with, read about and celebrate the lives of those people. So looking forward to more fun.times & coming up to the bug.bad city & hanging out with y'all. Lots of inspiring creatures toddling around the Highveld! Andre thank you so much for picking this up.
[So glad to have come back to your corner of the digital neighbourhood again BTW :: rocking content!]
It’s been one of the issues that truly bears us down and only serves to increase insecurity. We all know that we don’t get out of this game alive. But it’s a damn fine idea to focus a little more on those who make their lives a powerful expression of success by changing the world for good than those who’ve been conned, slaughtered or met some terrifying end.
I’m just sickened by the constant pipeline of grisly tales that are addictive because they give us social currency and an emotional/physiological rush.. but it also evokes learned helplessness; where you at at the mercies of accident and crooked leadership.
It’s like alcohol, which effectively is mild poison, but it shifts us out of our world for a little while.

Self-righteousness, shock or frustration that we get from the news fodder is the junk-food on which we’ve fed for long enough.

There are ways out of here.
There are trailblazers.
I want to hang out with, read about and celebrate the lives of those people.

So looking forward to more fun.times & coming up to the bug.bad city & hanging out with y’all. Lots of inspiring creatures toddling around the Highveld!

]]> By: André SC http://pixelplexus.co.za/blog/2007/06/08/whats-wrong-with-news-media/comment-page-1/#comment-14054 André SC Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:11:08 +0000 http://pixelplexus.co.za/blog/2007/06/08/whats-wrong-with-news-media/#comment-14054 True true, though I was surprised that sundaytimes.co.za didn't come up higher - but I suppose that will change :-) True true, though I was surprised that sundaytimes.co.za didn’t come up higher – but I suppose that will change :-)

]]> By: Paul De Sousa http://pixelplexus.co.za/blog/2007/06/08/whats-wrong-with-news-media/comment-page-1/#comment-14052 Paul De Sousa Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:12:17 +0000 http://pixelplexus.co.za/blog/2007/06/08/whats-wrong-with-news-media/#comment-14052 WRT seo on TheTimes. The Times is a relatively new domain and will more than likely be sandboxed for sometime before being displayed on serps. However there are already a umber of pages getting indexed, and the blogs are doing incredibly well. of course SEO is going to play a part of the strategy, but unfortunately no one can escape the <a href="http://blogs.thetimes.co.za/desousa/seo/glossary#sandbox" rel="nofollow">sandbox</a>. Its still early days. Watch this space ;-) WRT seo on TheTimes. The Times is a relatively new domain and will more than likely be sandboxed for sometime before being displayed on serps. However there are already a umber of pages getting indexed, and the blogs are doing incredibly well.
of course SEO is going to play a part of the strategy, but unfortunately no one can escape the sandbox.

Its still early days. Watch this space ;-)

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