There is a very interesting phenomena occurring around Earth Day this year (4/20/08), every print company on the planet is publishing something on "GREEN". Am I the only one who finds this to be completely ironic? If not outright hypocritical. Profitizing off of the environmental hype by tapping into a serious need for marketers to communicate their green message, while the publishers themselves have Sasquatchean environmental footprints is the truest form of snake oil sales.
I am not saying that web technology is some kind of hyperclean alternative (though with a little digging could probably come up with some arguments), but have you checked into the environmental impact of your morning paper or weekly entertainment rag? Not to mention all those magizines with April cover stories painted green across the newstand walls.
Seroiously! If these companies want to promote green initiatiatives in the name of profit they need to either shut up or shut down!
MINDSCRIBE: brain writers, cerebral context, thinker class, musical wisdom, engaged in scribbling thoughts. One who writes their mind.
One who mindscribes trys not to censure ones stream of consciousness.
Did you know that in 1933 James Joyce was finally allowed to legally publish in the US his epic stream of consciousness work "Ulysses" which was previously judged obscene for its explicit description of one of the character's inner thoughts? "Ulysses...is subject to seizure, forfeiture and confiscation and destruction.” For a country that proclaims a freedom of speech, we don't historically keep that promise to the populous. What is now considered a revolutionary writing accomplishment was once considered by the US powers-that-be, as inappropriate for the American public as was the whiskey of prohibition.
Both prevailed to popular demand.
