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Impromptu Twitter Poetry

October 5, 2010

I kind of get the feeling my depressing narratives are merging into one. Sure individual songs, poems, and artworks are about specific situations but there seems to be one big depressing thread that pulls them altogether. Sometimes I think all we really have are our narratives, our stories, our memories. At times (say after a relationship breakup) I think to myself, “Well I’ve got this song and maybe it’s not a great consolation in the scheme of things, but nobody can take that away from me.”

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Crowdsourcing For Creative People

June 2, 2010
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Crowdsourcing is a rather elaborate sounding term that actually refers to something that is both simple and quite powerful.

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Facebook and Friendship

April 24, 2010

People, in effect, opt in to a relationship with you. And the flip side of this is that they can also opt out of that relationship at any moment.

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History: 140 Characters At A Time

April 16, 2010

Nothing has made me quite as self-conscious about tweeting as the knowledge that those tweets will be recorded for all of time within the Library of Congress. But I do actually believe in the logic behind the decision.

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Twitter and Opinions

July 27, 2009

Earlier today I enjoyed a coffee and a crossiant at a local cafe. It is the last day of school holidays in this particular part of the world, and consequently children are literally everywhere you look.

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The Shitty First Draft and Social Media

June 3, 2009

So for the last week or so I’ve been eagerly reading Anne Lamont’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. What a beautiful book this is!

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Fight Club: Social Versus Traditional Media

March 22, 2009

I recently wondered if early social media adopters were antisocial, though perhaps users have reason to be suspicious of traditional media ‘spin’ when it comes to their beloved social media services.

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Are Early Adopters Antisocial?

March 20, 2009

You always know when a social media service you use has appeared in mainstream media because people are talking about it. Both on the service itself and in other places too. There seems to be a mixture of giddy anticipation and trepidation among hardcore users when the likes of Jay Leno, Whoopi Goldberg and Ellen DeGeneres start making mention of Twitter.

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