Four New Pages for the Coffeeblog

6:07 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005

[Gallantly geeky yet blatantatly blogospheric]

Little did I dream when I started this modest little weblog that I would wander far afield from the safe themes of coffee, cafes, and the meaning of life into the uncharted territory of movies, food, writing ("words" I call it), and that most esoteric, gallantly geeky yet blatantatly blogospheric category of New Media. And so, loyal Coffeeblog fans, I have created four new topical web pages to include the lubricious rubrics, words, new media, cinema, and gastronomy.

Why gastronomy, and not just "food". What you give the cat is food, cat food. What I write about is magnificently gastronomic, even if only a humble McDonald's sausage biscuit. And cinema? Whatever happened to movies? Well, movies are what you make in iMovie, dowload from email jokes, and watch on your video iPod. Cinema is serious stuff, and you have to pay to see it, buy the popcorn, and change your seat when the Cardiff Giant sits in front of you. At least this year. Perhaps cinema is on its way out. Like the index card. And paper.

So, what's this new media thing? The term appears to have gained popularity at universities, where "New Media Studies" programs have been established. The tag has been applied by the thousands at Technorati and del.icio.us and over 600 on Flickr, as well as the tags newmedia and new+media. In my opinion, new media include old media that have been re-purposed, such as comics, hipster PDA's, Moleskines, samples and clips from old movies and audio, and AM talk radio. In the art world, the term applies to art made from non-traditional materials, including TV sets. In general, new media are loosely or tightly tied together by digital science, including the Internet, electronic gadgets, folksonomic tags, and online social neworking. Certainly video games, cellphones, iPods, and weblogs such as this one are part of the new media.

To visit the four new Coffeeblog pages (the pages are new, but at this launch time much of the content has been posted previously), click words, new media, cinema, and gastronomy. You can also click the links in the new, improved navbar at the top and bottom of pages, or in the sidebar "Go" menu.

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