Mark Williams

“Is Google Evil?” Page ranking and SEO for songs.

First, some simplified background: Anyone familiar with the history of Google Inc. has likely heard that one of Google’s founding principles was “Don’t Be Evil”. This mantra is generally thought to be in response to the heavy handed business practices Microsoft had been employing in the 90s. What I find interesting about this from a […]

Brett David Potter

“Living Into Focus”: Recovering Clarity in the Age of Technology

Technology is an integral part of the human cultural “envelope.” Once we used stone implements to kill mammoths and sabretooth tigers; now we have iPads. Marshall McLuhan famously called the media the “extensions of man”; but in a sense, all technology could be described by this phrase. Our tools, as is manifestly evident in the twenty-first century, have become part of […]

Brett David Potter

The Revelation will not be Televised

I may have to add a proviso or two to my earlier, Baudrillard-heavy reading of the Royal Wedding. Watching it on PVR the next day (having opted not to get up at 3 am for the talking heads) the whole production turned out to be – as one might perhaps reasonably expect from a wedding […]