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. [...]
Today’s Guessing Game: What Is It?
November 3rd, 2009 · Comments
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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Wii Are Family
January 2nd, 2009 · Comments
In college, I had a friend named Jane. She was the oldest daughter in a family of tennis players, and they all looked like her: tall and willowy, but strong as thoroughbreds, with defined muscles in their long arms and legs; permanently sunburned noses; and an effortless way of moving that was almost heartbreaking to [...]
Tags: Children · Family History · Parenting · Pop Culture · Teenagers
Four Diary Entries
November 17th, 2008 · Comments
Barb Chamberlain is the Director of Communications and Public Affairs at Washington State University in Spokane. She was also the youngest Representative and (later) Senator elected to the Idaho State Legislature–which I didn’t know until she tagged me in a post she wrote on her blog: Five things you don’t know about me. But I’m [...]
Tags: Secrets
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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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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