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Today’s Guessing Game: What Is It?

November 3rd, 2009 · Comments

Remember AOL disks? If you owned a mailbox in the late 1990s or early-2000s, you know what I mean, because America Online’s aggressive direct mail strategy probably distributed CD-ROMs and diskettes into it with irritating frequency. More than a billion disks were mailed between the late 1990s and 2006, when AOL stopped the mass mailing. [...]

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Tags: Pop Culture · Technology

A Journey to ‘25 Random Things’

February 17th, 2009 · Comments

Three weeks ago, William tagged me in a “25 Random Things About Me” chain letter. I’ve hung around with William a few times, but reading his list feels a lot like a peek at his diary: Here are his hopes, fears, and his profession of love for Twizzlers.
I’m tagged again by Tim (”I’m a writer… [...]

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Tags: Business · Media · Pop Culture · Social Media · Technology

How to Get Regular Updates of Annarchy

October 10th, 2008 · Comments

Since I don’t write here daily, it’s easy to miss new stuff on this blog. My friend Chris Brogan, guest-posting at Shannon Paul’s place, calls the content I create here a “craft blog” and distinguishes it from a typical blog that’s updated more frequently, with shorter posts. Understandably, Chris says, my essays here are “something [...]

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Tags: Social Media · Technology · writing

I Suspect Everyone Else Is Smarter, Better-Looking, Taller, Cooler, Cuter, Has Newer and Shinier Objects than I Do (and Is More Modest)

June 26th, 2008 · Comments

When you are prone to measuring yourself against others, like I am, and when you both work and live out chunks of your life online, as I do, the Internet can be a bitch.
It’s easy to get caught up in measuring your impact online, and to suspect that your own self-worth is tied to it.
It’s [...]

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Tags: Politics & Society · Social Media · Technology · Video · writing

American Idolatry

May 22nd, 2008 · Comments

Last week I signed on for the Comcast triple play, which brought our triumvirate of phone-internet-TV under Comcast’s wing. It also simultaneously catapulted us back to the Land of DVRs (Digital Video Recorders), a place from which we had reluctantly decamped after our last TiVo box died months ago.
With DVRs, we’ve learned to start the [...]

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Tags: Media · Parenting · Pop Culture · Technology

New Media as Community Theater—All the World’s a Stage

April 1st, 2008 · Comments

I am a total sucker for community theater, especially musical theater. What I love isn’t so much the corny show tunes or the predictable story lines, but the players’ infectious energy for taking risks. I was reminded of this a few weekends ago when I went to see a local production of Godspell.
Because I have [...]

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