{"id":405,"date":"2007-11-14T23:05:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T06:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=405"},"modified":"2007-11-14T23:05:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T06:05:36","slug":"new-media-if-you-cant-beat-em-join-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/11\/new-media-if-you-cant-beat-em-join-em\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW MEDIA: If you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em, join &#8217;em"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>he TV drama CSI New York is an offshoot of CSI (Las Vegas) which had first spawned CSI Miami.&nbsp; It&#8217;s typical in TV land to clone a success and sit on your laurels for a while.&nbsp; Evidences by the rash of reality shows, Legal dramas, the cop shows such as Law and Order, and of course, the talent shows for dancing or making a complete fool of yourself.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>But this is going along the lines of all those commercials where they animate real people via software programming.&nbsp; CSI has latched onto Second Life to make a <a href=\"http:\/\/alpha.cbs.com\/primetime\/csi_ny\/second_life\/#\">virtual crime sc<\/a>ene where you&#8217;re invited to help follow clues and discover the perpetrator.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s curious to think that as we get further and further away from real human contact&#8211;via e-mail, weblogs, gaming, Peapod delivery, families moving around instead of remaining local, working from home, and going to college online&#8211;that it&#8217;s going to be hard to remember what a handshake feels like, or if people have huge eyes and round heads like their avatars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>he TV drama CSI New York is an offshoot of CSI (Las Vegas) which had first spawned CSI Miami.&nbsp; It&#8217;s typical in TV land to clone a success and sit on your laurels for a while.&nbsp; Evidences by the rash of reality shows, Legal dramas, the cop shows such as Law and Order, and of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}