y i r bad at blogging
To run a popular blog, you need focus. I’m not talking about the kind of focus required to sit down and write a post. Although you need that, too. Let me rephrase – to run a popular blog, you need … Continue reading
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Nothing happening
Sorry folks, there’s been no real content for a while. My thoughts are elsewhere at the moment. I’d like to muster some creative juices at some point, but they might take some mustering. Later, I might throw out a couple … Continue reading
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Internet weirdness
AmbaSewa wrote: “I currently post comments on a fairly regular basis on four blogs. Two are the blogs of total strangers. Mind you, the totality of their strangeness is reducing- one particularly blogs prolifically.” There’s a weirdness that comes from … Continue reading
What was Jesus’s incentive?
Freakonomics posed this as “The greatest question ever asked” The economics hook is, of course, that people act according to incentives and it’s fun to try and examine a ‘selfless’ act. It’s a polarizing topic; the post gets 200 comments … Continue reading
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Apologies
No new Gretel episode yesterday. There is another piece, though.
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Public Service Announcement – Mostly Fairy Tales
Given that I’m fresh out of real content, I’ve done some house-keeping instead. Behold the Mostly Fairy Tales page… an index of all the Monday fairytales, without the annoying Part I – Part II – Part III baloney. As full … Continue reading
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Distance on the Internet – Part II
Part I looked at how we might think of distance on the internet, working from the concept of physical distance applying its principles in a digital network. It got as far as Google, but it ignored linking. Arguably, the straight … Continue reading
Distance on the Internet – Part I
A few thoughts on how far apart things can be in a virtual world. I’ve previously said that distance doesn’t exist on the internet, and that the internet doesn’t have any corners. This is true in some ways, but less … Continue reading
Seth Godin – Social Networking
“Networking is always important when it’s real and it’s always a useless distraction when it’s fake. What the internet has allowed is an enormous amount of fake networking to take place.” The internet can be used to build real relationships. … Continue reading
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What is “Internet Distance”?
Hmmm… Illinois doesn’t want sex offenders to use social networking. Actually, the state is making it a felony for them to do so. “The idea was, if the predator is supposed to be a registered sex offender, they should keep … Continue reading