Marketing the Idea of Free Speech
In this hyper partisan world we live in there is an endless stream of conflict and misinformation. And many are marketing the theory that banning speech from some online platforms is an encroachment on the First Amendment Rights of individuals. Take Alex Jones: I’m...
Fake News Is An Oxymoron, Do You Mean Propaganda?
There Is No Fake News – It’s Either News Or Not When you are discussing something as vital as information then the exactness of words is an important thing to consider, and fake news, while it may be a trending term, and the favorite buzzword of a few very...
Copyright, Free Speech Vs. Hate Speech, And Other Interesting Internet Conundrums
What Is The Internet? Depends Who You Ask Do you spend much time thinking about what shape the internet is? Following on from that – do you expend much energy in wondering what it is that allows it to retain that shape? If it really is just a black mirror then...
Combating Trolls While Protecting Privacy
Anonymity And Criminality Are Not Intrinsically Connected Should anonymity on the net be done away with? Should lack of anonymity be imposed on people who commit certain offenses? It is something of a minefield that pulls in all kind of laws regarding privacy and...
China Built A Social Media Control Mechanism For Its People
When You Track Yourself For Others, Who’s In Control Of The Data? Use what you have. Want to control the people? Connect them all up and then use them to monitor and regulate each other, reduce the burden on the state. This seems to be working in China. The...
Drug Free America – Pam Bondi & Keanan Kintzel
Drug Free America Are Helping To Handling The Drug Problem! Drugs are a problem that affect a lot of people, and with the wide-ranging issues caused by the Opioid Epidemic, and the over-prescription of psychiatric drugs, it is not just recreational drugs that are in...
Community Service Foundation – The Idea Of Carriage Housing
Solving problems is always going to involve a degree of innovation, and housing and homelessness are no different. The problem has been with us for a long time, so new thinking is needed, and the idea of carriage housing, along with the other solutions offered by the...
Community Service Foundation Patron Regions Bank
Being able to afford somewhere to live is vital, whether you are by yourself or have children – you need a home to live in. Sometimes people need some help to be able to do this, and the Community Service Foundation is one such non profit organization that does...
CBA
Local Businessmen Helping The Local Community The Concerned Businessmen’s Association of Tampa Bay (CBA of Tampa Bay) is an organisation that is dedicated to improving the local community that it is part of. It was formed by Patrick Clouden, a local businessman...
Keanan Kintzel of Buzzazz at Winter Wonderland
Have A Happy Christmas At Winter Wonderland! The time for you to visit Winter Wonderland is now! There is not long left for 2017, and then Santa will up sticks and take his magic back to the North Pole, surrendering Cleveland Street back to the Florida sunshine....
Drug Free World
Accurate, Easy To Understand Drug Education Is Important Drug education is an important part of bringing up your kids so that they don’t end up making the kinds of mistakes that a lot of adults have already made, and wish they hadn’t. By giving them the...
Wabamm
Do you ever find yourself sat at home with the kids with nothing to do? They get bored, and you get frustrated, and you just wish there was some way to find something to go do? Inspired by the difficulty of finding something family friendly in Pinellas County, Keanan...
Keanan Kintzel Of Buzzazz Talks To Homeless But Not Hopeless Man
How often do you ever talk to the homeless people on the streets of Clearwater? How do you go about understanding the issue and helping to solve it if you have no understanding of it? Everybody has a story, and when you get people thinking, most of them have some...
The International Youth Theater
The International Youth Theater has definitely made some dreams come true for a lot of very talented people. A lot of actors dream of being on the stage and of perhaps one day getting to direct a play, but not many get to do it so young, and when they do they...
Koch Brothers & Time Magazine: Purchasing Personal Propaganda Machines
Is Time Up For Time Magazine? Koch Brothers & Time Magazine are in talks. No one would claim that journalists have a great approval rating as it is, but news that groups like the Koch Brothers are making the leap from behind the scenes influencers to media moguls...
Escapism Versus The Barrage Of Daily Disruption
People Need To Lift Their Heads Up, Not Bury Them Some people are taking a time out from social media – they are getting stressed out by the deluge of bad news, and the constant fighting between people who emerge from their echo chamber to make a lightning raid...
Political Not Polite, Direct Not Dissembling
Speaking your Mind Isn’t The Same As Telling The Truth, But There’s An Honesty In It In politics people seem to be done with being polite and holding back or diluting their opinions, and while some of the opinions expressed may be intolerable to people, at...
Time To Repackage – Operating In A Disruption Environment
Embrace The Chaos, Create Your Own Democrats on the back foot. Journalists hunkered down waiting for the next attack. Sure, some members of these groups are weathering the storm admirably, but on the whole they seem to have been caught flat-footed. Fake is the label...
Disruption: The New Lingua Franca Of Media
Shaking Up The Establishment Is Key For A Disruptor Disruption is the idea is that there are certain ways things are used, or certain ways things are done, and you are swimming against the flow, often in a way that is game changing. Is it a good thing? Depends what...
Promote They Keep Out The Politics?
Politics Is Seeping Into Other Media, And Some Promote It Roll Back Do you promote that they keep the politics out of your *insert something you enjoy here*? Because, I am right with you. Allow me to say something nice about Donald Trump (I am asking permission...
When Presidents Endorse: The Pitfalls And Plus Points Of Presidential Favor
People Are Predicting President-Elect Trump’s Twitter Is The Thing To Watch President Elect Trump tweets that he supports you and likes your product. Suddenly droves of people on the other side of the political divide are running in the opposite direction, or in...
Political Correctness And P.R. (Addendum: The Holidays)
The Holidays Offer Their Own P.R. Concerns Three months later, back we go into the controversy of political correctness and P.R. I’ve said much on the subject over several articles, but now as we are in the winter, we have the potential for a minor P.R. gaffe which...
Political Advertising Is Not The Reason For Anger
Well It May Play A Part, Political Advertising Is Not Why Public Discourse Is So Angry Mudslinging is a part of the way politicians go about advertising. It just is. I am not a fan of the practice, but it is how America works right now. But, the election is over, and...