Telenovelas have always shrouded social messages in old-fashioned melodrama: agrarian reform in Brazil, drug-related crime in Mexico and civil liberties in Venezuela.
The red line is the messages received from the broker, green denotes the messages stored in old consumers, and blue denotes the messages stored in Apache Flume.
Traditional messages in the old broadcast style – exalt your product, tell your audiences why they need it now – are at best overlooked and forgotten; at worst, ridiculed.
Traditional messages in the old broadcast style -- exalt your product and tell your audiences why they need it now -- are at best overlooked and forgotten; at worst, ridiculed.
At this stage of a campaign year, the fight to get voters out to the polls joins at every level -- in the air (that is, TV), on the ground (door-to-door canvassers), in cyberspace (e-mail, Twitter, text messages) and, yes, in old fashioned, but ever-reliable, mail boxes, which are about to start bursting with political pitches and attacks.
"We DJs are looking for the message in an old record, thinking about how we can integrate it into our sets today, and then: boom, the club explodes!" But for the two of us now, Ellen and myself, nothing around us is "exploding".
In other fun news, the oldest message-in-a-bottle ever was returned to its sender recently, after a journey of more than a century.
These messages are mostly transmitted in old and familiar ways.
First up is GroupMe's new gallery view — rather than forcing users to scroll upstream through scores of old messages in search of previously shared photos, the app now lets them view all those photos in one fell swoop.
These intellectuals, now spread from Tehran to London and Washington, have appointed themselves the think tank of the green movement, re-delivering old messages in new packages, and burying their heads in the sand so as not to hear the chants for revolution in the streets.
