Month: April 2013
I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Signed Off
I often wonder what a poet like Emily Dickinson would make of today’s online world. In the 19th century she wrote a poem about the…
Sorry, but I like my phone a little better than you
When you get involved in online communication, it’s very easy to quickly reach a point where you are communicating with people all of the time.…
Needing the Illusion of Grandeur to Be Real
In today’s world, we are bombarded with bad news. Murders, holes in the ozone, wars, people who are starving, people who are homeless, bad unemployment…
Why do we post the things we do to the online world?
Back in 2010, I think, I decided that I was done with Facebook. OK, this wasn’t the first time I had come to that conclusion…
A Letter To Those Of You With 1,500 Twitter Followers Or Fewer
Yesterday, shortly after the events in Boston started to unfold, a person who is very well known online still had their automated posts flowing into…
Rootless
About a year ago, Olivier Blanchard wrote a post called Social Media 1918. It’s an amazing post (obviously, if it is still on my mind…