by Brian on 08-10-2009
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When David Armano posted this visual in January I laughed, then wondered where I fit. “Obviously I converted to social media long ago and quickly skipped past zealotry, and self-righteousness to become an evolving believer…” Well, um, looking back it is clear I still had some self-righteous jerkiness to get out of my system and I’m [...]
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Just like last year I’ll be away from blogging for the first part of August. I’ll still be using email and Facebook… I think I might actually use Facebook more than I have before. My brother is getting married on Saturday so this is a perfect time to focus on the more ‘real’ and fundamental, interpersonal [...]
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These thoughts have been germinating for a while, finally coming together after reading this on Glen Pearson’s blog: I am learning that these people ["from all political stripes" who manage to work together] are looking for a “place,” a way of being that can reflect political differences while at the same time maintaining the deep respect [...]
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The news sure spread fast. It interrupted broadcasts and seemed to consume Twitter — as much as it can be consumed by any single event. Ethan Zuckerman of Global Voices reported, according to his metric, that 15% of all posts on the service mentioned Michael Jackson. By comparison, he never saw Iran or Swine Flu [...]
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by Brian on 05-16-2009
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Above all the claims about the need to save journalism, about it being essential to our society, etc, this fact seems to be missed: the more essential journalism is supposed to be, the more continuously prevalent it should appear throughout history. How much historical continuity is there? Where did journalism really come from? What is [...]
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This is just sort of a half-assed update. Expect changes (or maybe a slow gradual change) as my employer has seen fit to cut off almost all internet access (down to only a half-dozen sites I know of) and my information diet is affected — ie reduced to a fraction of what it was. (I [...]
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I’m going through some self-enforced downtime as far as blogging is concerned. Whenever I start building up momentum with longer posts I start getting too many ideas queued up and overdoing it and not getting sleep and turning into a workahol-addicted zombie. Some might say it isn’t work but I say it damn well is. [...]
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Just reactivated my Facebook profile, which I “deactivated” in September. Everything’s still there — where it’ll be forever: all of our moments and memories and Scrabulous scores owned by Facebook ’till long after we’re gone. It still doesn’t suit me but it’s impractical and countersocial not to be on Facebook. I kept wondering if people were wondering. We’ll see how [...]
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With all the newspaper stuff happening I wanted to write something along those lines, like, “Citizen Journalism: Your Civic Duty,” or something lame like that. I was going to recommend PodCamp London (not lame) coming up in April, tip my hat to the encouraging progress the London Free Press is making (with people there starting to appreciate citizen journalists a little [...]
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I’ve been trying to figure out who from my group of friends and “real life” acquaintances might want to start using Twitter. I got on it recently and I love it. (Actually, I tried it over a year ago and didn’t quite “get it” — not until after I’d been immersed more in the social [...]
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Did anyone see the ads for Bromance? To me it looks like the end of TV — but I’ve seen what I thought was the end of TV too many times to believe it anymore. Anyways, it reminded me of something Dave Letterman said in a Rolling Stone interview about that celebrity-offspring-doing-reality-TV crowd. This was about the [...]
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