Metaculture

Всем привет!



Недавно заметил в блоге Игоря Бигдана рекламный баннер, где он предлагает рекламу в своем блоге. И тоже задумался над тем, как бы получить хотя бы небольшую копеечку со своего увлечения.



Наткнулся на форуме блоггеров http://www.bloggers.su/forum/ на раздел о монетизации блогов http://www.bloggers.su/forum/forum…, там обсуждаются многие вопросы, смысл которых мне непонятен. Тем не менее, некоторые из участников озвучивали цифры, и у некоторых якобы доход с блога был такой, что с основной работы можно было уйти... я бы тоже так хотел...



Особенно заинтересовала тема: Как начать зарабатывать на блоге? В ней новичкам, в т.ч. и мне, объясняют как найти рекламодателей для блога, какими способами вообще можно заработать... короче интересно блин и перспективно, как мне кажется.



А вы что думаете об этом?

Hey Metaculture! I'm an intern for The Media Show, a video project based out of Columbia Teachers College. We take a mostly critical and analytic stance on the media, and let puppets do the talking. Above is an episode about greenwashing and the many ways that brands/media outlets attempt to look more environmentally conscious. Hope you enjoy!

Full Series on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/themediashow

LJ Community
http://community.livejournal.com/t…

-Lindsay, Media Show Intern

i just joined metaculture, posted, and then read the "manifesto." i guess in light of it, i should back up my original post with some rationale. why am i suddenly a spoiled brat? has the momentum of easy living in america contributed to my whininess? most assuredly.

so i went to the movies the other night, and since it was my week to pick, i really wanted to see "the upside of anger," which was surprisingly good. I love joan allen. anyway, the movie was only playing at the showcase in north attleboro, which does not, come to find out, have stadium seating. now, i dont usually think of myself as being the spoiled type, but i was whining the entire time! the view was off, forget putting your feet up, and i was worried the whole time that i was going to get a sore neck by staring up at the screen at such a weird angle. i used to go to regular theatres all the time, but ever since the stadium revolution, i will hardly ever darken one's doorstep. and now i remember why.

hello! my name is ben or trent or whatever,
and i have just started a new community on livejournal entitled catchphrases.

the idea of it is to get people from all over to come together
and share the catchphrases that they find themselves using in their own lives.

membership is at an all time low, meaning just me as of this post...
but i have big plans and even bigger dreams for it!

so if this sounds interesting to you, please join
and post any catchphrases you regularly hear or say,
and maybe someday we can have, like, 10 members,
and then we can all get some new phrases in our lives.

thank you for your time.

Charles Kennedy speaks out about a "climate of fear" and loss of personal freedoms

I'm guessing that the US is affected by this even more than we (the UK) are; but I feel he raises an interesting point. Can national freedom really be enhanced by the erosion of personal freedom? Discuss.

join musical_mangle if you're a good kid with the love for the music.

Hey everybody.

My personal favorite place to go for reviews on popular products and services, Consumer Reports, just put up their latest study on their website.

It's pretty extensive and informative. Not to mention pretty damn helpful. You should all check it out:

Consumer Reports: Weapons of Mass Destruction issue

;)

The being-nice-to-punters existence that is my job has fried my brain to such an extent that I find myself unable to add anything more intelligent to this than:

Go read, 's interesting! (IMHO anyway.....)

Sunday's Observer contained an interesting comment by David Aaronovich, on cultural differences and moral norms. In many ways, its opening was flawed, but the thrust of his argument is an interesting one. I, for one, think that moral norms and what is acceptable, can legitimately be culturally influenced both by time and place. While that's the case, I think that there is a sort of "perfect" morality that we will hopefully one day aspire to. For instance, I think that slavery and colonialism were not the major sin they're viewed as today when they were first perpetrated, because that was the world that people lived in at the time, and often the less aggressive power would be overwhelmed. The circumstance dictated that you had to do all you could to defend yourself and increased your power in the world. We can view slavery as a terrible tragedy, but perhaps not the moral crime that today, in our modern world, it would be.
Do you agree with that? If so, how far? Are there things which, nomatter what cultural or world influence, remain wrong? The "honour killings" that Aaronovich talks about are a good point, because I don't believe they are ever completely morally correct, but at the same time, they are understandable if the pressures on families to support their women (in a culture that would make it hard for them to work or earn their keep in any way other than as a wife) mean that the best, perhaps only, option for an extended family is to rid itself of the widely perceived "stain on its honour". I don't like it, but I think Aaronovich is too dismissive of this.
Still, if we agree that there is some sort of final, "best" moral outlook, the argument must be for changing cultures until these conform to something which will allow for a "better" morality to thrive. Or can any culture accept certain things as unequivocally, morally wrong despite whatever cultural pressures exist?