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I Can Haz Hoomin Hart-aik

i knowz dis place lyk teh back of my... ...wat's dis?

Maybe it’s because the holidays put me in a melancholy mood. Maybe because I’m again staring down the barrel of six bleak months of winter. Whatever the cause, I can’t help but read lolcats these days without glimpsing the heartache of the human condition. In a piece a few weeks ago in Salon, Jay Dixit […]

Filed Under: Humor, Pop Culture Tagged With: internet, lolcats, memes, Social Media

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

What Is a Friend?

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My friend and colleague Shelley and I are taking our two girls to a company “junket” we’ll both be attending next month in southern California. (We’re calling the two of them the MarketingProfs “Web 3.0” team.) The girls are 9 and 11 and live, respectively, in Texas and Massachusetts. Kinsey (the 9-year-old) and Caroline (age […]

Filed Under: Children, Social Media, Technology Tagged With: daughters, internet, kids, online intimacy, social networks, Technology

How I Invented Blogging

fine writing pen

When I was a kid growing up, and my parents’ friends would ask me the inevitable question, “So, what do you want to be when you grow up?” I would look them square in the eye and say definitively, “I want to be a blogger.” Well, that’s not entirely true. I did go through a […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Annecdote, Content, Secrets, Social Media, Technology Tagged With: blogging, internet, personal history, Writing

In-Your-Facebook

I got an email from my friend Sharon this morning. She had recently signed up for a Facebook account and had just been “friended” by someone she didn’t know very well. Actually, she didn’t know him at all. She asked something like, “So who is he? Is he a creep? What does he want?” Then, […]

Filed Under: Parenting, Social Media, Technology Tagged With: Facebook, internet, online intimacy, privacy, social networks

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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