Are we shifting to a post lexical society? The success of Pinterest may be a bit more evidence in support of one of my societal suspicions – that we are changing the ways we get information in what may become a limiting rather than enabling constraint for individuals and society at large. A picture may […]
Some Days Are, Well, Rather Sucky
Not that I’m complaining. I still have a wonderful life. Wonderful family. Wonderful friends. And a former hosting company that sucks big time. Today did not go as planned. Did you ever wake up and find your self-hosted sites all disappeared along with the hosting company you have used for years? Let me tell you, […]
Erma Bombeck Warned Us
We are all Erma Bombeck now. I was perusing the Pinterest pins and surfed over to a site containing Erma Bombeck quotes when I realized that at least half of the bloggers I read are following in the ink stained trail of Erma’s wit and wisdom. But then I’ve always thought Erma was far […]
Whine, Gripe, Moan, Second Guess
I feel like an idiot. I host a website for a friend and she came over yesterday so we could choose a new template for a the site. Nothing would work properly. Grrrr. Templates that had loaded just fine a couple of days ago were flaking out, not loading, missing sections. I looked like a […]
Do Overs and Social Media
Continuing on from yesterday’s post on do overs I thought I would talk about the continuity of of social media. Social media may seem of the moment, but like any digital information on the web, it can go on forever. With the advent of internet archives such as archive.org you can visit earlier versions of […]
Do Overs, Kapra, and Kurosawa
I’m trying to figure out the theme for today’s post, Do Over is the GBE2 topic this week and I will work that in somehow, but I also want to post on the general topic of social media and how and why I the various forms of it that I do. In keeping with the […]