Feeling: Social
Ah, June… Summer is at our doorstep, the days are (almost all of them) seeming to get a little bit longer, and for the second year in a row I am partaking in my daily blogging exercise, marginally...
View ArticleTo Read: Your Stuff
Here we are in the last weeks of June… Summer has officially arrived, school is out for the season, the days grow a little more lazy and for the second year in a row I continue partaking in my daily...
View ArticleFour Reasons I’ve Pretty Much Finished With Social Networks
Because I’ve been asked why… so here goes. Ok. So I know it’s pretty much been overdone this whole ragging on Facebook thing. “Blah, blah, blah. We get it. You’re not on Facebook any more, you pompous,...
View ArticleA Twittling Reminder…
I had not forgotten. It was lurking there in the back of my mind. But 2013 seems to be moving at a race pace, the days just slicking by, and when @annelidworm dropped me a note to wish me luck on my...
View ArticleAwesome
Hey Brad – we think you’re an AWESOME fan!! by @TheLEGOMovie, via a DM on Twitter [8 Clicks From Nowhere @ http://blog.8r4d.com/]
View ArticleSometimes I read through twitter and want to reply to the so-many inane comments there. Then I remember that the flames are hottest where the minds are the driest, and I just walk away. by 8r4d [8...
View ArticleWill social media kill the stump speech?
topic 00021 a mash-up of public (communication) & talking I am something of a (closet) political junkie when it comes to elections. Oddly enough, politics itself, that vague act of governing and...
View ArticleIs love now measured in likes?
topic 00047 a mash-up of romance & belief Romance in 2015 has been upgraded. Now, rather than simply the obligatory box of chocolates for the classic Hallmark(TM) love holiday, we are apparently...
View ArticleBlogging is Dead, Long Live Blogging
Blogging is dead. As such, some would be keen to insist that the age of this blog is very telling. Fourteen years have passed since I started pounding vague opinions and anecdotes into the ether of the...
View ArticleTwitter Essay: Enough with the ad hominem already!
I’ve been a little frustrated digging into the various comment feed and twitter feeds and facebook comments over the last couple days. From sour grapes to outright name calling to one blowhard flat-out...
View ArticleTo Break : This Conversation
June moves into the home stretch! And onward we push through those thirty posts nearing the end of what I’ve been writing every year this month. For the fifth year in a row I’m back to a month of daily...
View ArticleSocial Media Update
If you don’t see me posting on the socials for a while, don’t be too alarmed. We’ve had a falling out, social media and I. I don’t want to be one of those guys who stomps his feet, picks up the ball...
View ArticleForce of Simplification
There are roughly 48 hours left in the month of November, and having given up a few of my baser electronic pleasures for this particular page of the calendar, I figured it was worth commenting on the...
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