Hacking With Pictures

[snowmit]

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In 2008, Australian show A Current Affair broadcast an episode that included a brief hypnotherapy session. The segment was called Think Slim and the idea was that it would help viewers lose weight. This was found to be in breach of the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice which specifically forbids broadcasting shows “designed to

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[talktooloose]

This post has been haunting me all day. I first read it in the Porter Airlines departure lounge (on a complimentary customer computer that required me to sneak around limits on viewing LiveJournal), and have just read it again on Long Island after two episodes of "FlashForward" and two shots of Slivovitz.

In the interim, other than flying internationally and navigating two commuter rail lines, I have reviewed all the links. I think I finally get what you're going on about.

Wow, as columnists go, you sure demand a lot of your audience!

[snowmit]

I choose to take that as a compliment?

[talktooloose]

Yes, that is one choice.

I guess writing a column is the same as writing fiction. You can choose, as the writer, just how hard you are going to make your audience work. The harder they do work, the deeper their learning or involvement, but probably the smaller the audience.

At least that is my working theory.