Bloggers to Vloggers: Not Your Ordinary [Deus ex-machINe-us], a Redact

In literature studies, "...the term "deus ex machina" has come to mean any inferior plot device that expeditiously solves the conflict of a narrative,' according to Wikipedia.  But the title of this entry ("Bloggers to Vloggers: Not Your Ordinary [Deus-ex-machINe-us], a Redact") is a different trip down a different kind of rabbit hole.  

The hyperlinked title of this entry takes you to a video-blog (or "VLOG").  This vlog spurred an in-kind response in VLOG form.  

Viewed together, these items effectively demonstrate how our communication skills are more complicated, or pre-elevated, to a meta-cognitive level... even before we put words (linear or otherwise) "out there."  

Indeed, writing in the 21st century often involves more than mere words (as if words were ever "mere" to begin with ;-)...).   

What we write, where we write, how we write, and when we write ...all depends on our audience.  That much has not changed...even after thousands of years, even before words were possible.

Our audience's response, however, stands to deepen the "cerebral vortex" of our thinking systems--to make us workers of knowledge, not just knowledge consumers. 

My hope... in sharing these vlogs with you here.. is manifold.  I hope to...

1.) expand your horizons;

2.) elevate your interests;

3.) immerse your conscious awareness; and therefore 

4.) deepen your convictions about being a practioner of lifelong learning.  

Though by many standards, these video-blogs provide us a mere glimpse into yesteryear's real time news (true enough, I promise--because these VLOGS are over a year old!), they still bear watching.  

Again, and again, and again.  

Enjoy!

~lk