Digital Media Explorer Gifts

Former Print Journalists Lost Their Jobs to TV and the Internet. Guess Where They're Talking (But For Free?)

"It's one of those large print audiobooks."

"There's no such thing as 'bad publicity'." "All traffic is good traffic."

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

'3 Second Loading Zone.'

'My name's Google and I'm being inundated with requests for information about every damn thing imaginable, by people I don't even know...It's endless!'

"You can access me by saying simply 'Agnes.' It is not necessary to add 'dot com.' "

"I've just been offered a job sorting out the Y1K bug.."

'For those with books, open and follow along. For those with laptops, follow me on Twitter.'

Girl with smart phone enters door that says "Social Media Studies"

'I didn't do my homework because I forgot my user name and password.'

"Miss Rogers told me I have a personal 'cloud' to store knowledge in."

A is for App...B is for Blogger...C is for Celebrity.

Likes: $2.

Theorbo

'I can't wait 'til hunting is googling and gathering is calling out for delivery.'

"I don't know what else we can do. He won't look up from the screen!"

"But how do I accomplish that in 140 characters or less?"

"You be the moral grandstander and I'll be the politically incorrect troll."

"Pokemon...Pokemon...Pokemon...."

"Mum! - T.S. Eliot - 'Humankind cannot bear much reality'."

"Since he got that thing, he mostly just kills time."

Real Life/Surreal Life

Updated Classis: Alice Through the You Tube.

'There's no art to the mind's construction on Facebook, Macbeth.'

'Hey...remember T.V.?

"I find it so stimulating to learn new software."

'I bought him to retrieve my e-mails.'

"No, son, you’re not ‘M for Mature.’"

"Wanna toss the ol' virtual pigskin?"

"... And his piano teacher says that he definitely has Van Gough's ear for music."

Computer games

'This computer has a fast modem, the latest Pentium, increased RAM, a huge hard drive and broadband connections. Only one problem...slow pointer fingers.'

'An encyclopedia? I don't know. Let's look up what it is on Wikipedia.'

'After researching our dream vacation online with reviews, commentaries, we cams and pictures, we felt we'd been there and didn't need the trip!'