NEW YORK, NY (MMD Newswire) May 13, 2009 -- Social media expert and author David Seaman claims that frequent Press Release use causes the "equivalent of brain damage".
"We're seeing thirty and forty year olds acting like overly emotional teenagers on MMD Newswire," Seaman said. "It's not all that healthy."
Press release use also takes complex ideas and boils them down into "overly simplistic soundbites" according to Seaman.
"Basically, press releases have some good uses, but they're making us all a bit stupider."
Aha! So it's not Google that's making us stupider after all :)
ReplyDeleteTake a look at the commonly perceived meaning of "digital divide".
ReplyDeleteConsider the meaning of Continental or Drainage divide.
Why - then - do we keep talking about "bridging" it?
What sense does it make being on the divide's right or wrong side?
Or is it my brain damage which prevents me from seeing the right meanng?
I was fairly certain that it was PowerPoint that made us stupid. Death by bullet slides and all that.
ReplyDeleteThe link is dead. I've added it to a post/response:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.lemmingworks.org/weblog/?p=2252
Thanks Complicity Theory; clearly press releases don't have permalinks.
ReplyDeleteclearly. I'm Jason Nolan, btw. :) regards.
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