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How to Get Regular Updates of Annarchy

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 […]

Filed Under: Social Media, Technology, Writing Tagged With: blogging, blogs, 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)

Excellent!

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 […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Humor, Politics & Society, Social Media, Technology, Video, Writing Tagged With: blogging, blogs, connectivity, internet, metrics, psychology, social networks, Technology

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

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 […]

Filed Under: Business, Pop Culture, Social Media, Technology Tagged With: blogs, Boston, community theater, connectivity, digital life, internet, social networks, Technology

4 x 4 Secrets About Me, And Why I’m Uncomfortable Talking About Myself

Entrance to Shuka, Yerevan

Over the weekend, my friends Peter Kim and BL Ochman independently tagged me “It” in two blog games (called memes). The object of each is for the tagged writer to reveal personal bits about themselves that you wouldn’t know otherwise, and then to tag other blog authors to similarly spill their guts. BL (who had […]

Filed Under: Secrets Tagged With: blogs, internet, memes, Secrets

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