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After having left him for dead at an African train station, the least I could do is link to this blogging superstar from Santiago, Chile. Rivaling his friend, the Chilean senator Fernando Flores, Leo Prieto is probably the closest thing to an online celebrity that South America has. And [...]

Today I was in such a zoned out state. Part hangover, part general mental confusion, my brain felt like a semi-permeable gel, only trapping the most arbitrary of observations. I went through all the regular motions: dropping my sister off at school, morning coffee and NY Times, going to the gym, picking sister up, IRC [...]

Global village is a term, coined by Marshall McLuhan in his book The Gutenberg Galaxy, describing how electronic mass media collapse space and time barriers in human communication, enabling people to interact and live on a global scale. In this sense, the globe has been turned into a village by the electronic mass media.1
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