Buzz Bishop, a local traditional journalist and budding social media advocate, has been thinking a lot about echo chamber feedback, and what happens when it’s all the same people at all the same conferences and on the same networks, talking about all the same things. Are we just talking to ourselves?
Buzz has kindly offered his thoughts on the this very possibility below:
Gary Vaynerchuk has been making the media rounds to hype up his book, 101 Wines – but it’s not your usual wine book tour.
He’s not all over the Food Network, or the lifestyle shows – he’s on MSNBC doing …read more

What is Media?
The world medium is almost gone. Whether singular or plural, it’s almost always media these days. In a sense, everything is media. Media is the environment we live in.
The definition of the word changes as the world around us changes. The medium is both the message and the medium itself.
Advertisers are no longer competing for your attention. they claim to be, but they’re not. They’re competing to rescue you from your inattention.
(Sidenote: Eric McLuhan doesn’t have a computer! He doesn’t believe in getting too close to them – he thinks you lose your ability to study them)
Every new …read more