social media
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Things Can Only Get Better?
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Websites and social media platforms are getting aggressive in the monetizing of their services because- who knew that providing a platform for free is not sustainable? No one wants online advertising either and we all live with it because these web developers have to have…
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The Infinite Web
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From the short story of Jorge Luis Borges’ “Book of Sand,” there is an ancient book with no beginning and has no end. The narrator discovers this simple-looking book contains endless volumes of information that was good and evil. “I realized that the book was…
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The Wild Wild Web
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Speaking about personal websites, I just screened this video about the early web. I can thankfully say my website was NEVER this cheesy but there was a sense of ownership back then. Much more so than we do on today’s social media platforms where there…
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Anti-Censorship
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Four years ago today I decided that I wasn’t having fun using Google anything, Facebook, Twitter or Instagram anymore, so I downloaded all my content from those platforms and promptly deleted those accounts. No Google products and no social media. If you’ve DM’d me, then…
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A Better Way
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Do I miss Twitter or Facebook? No. I make better use of my time by following blogs and websites via RSS.
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The Internet Is Broken
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Anyone else noticed that today’s WWW is insufferable? I don’t specifically know when it turned, or why most users became jerks, but I’ll go ahead and guess about 2010. Making money off of content became more important than the content itself. This is a long…
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The Ideal Life
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Lately, I’ve been thinking of the optimal lifestyle and how to get the best out of life. How can I better my existence? An ideal lifestyle is one you have to define for yourself. So if I wanted to focus on creativity and photography, I…
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A Few Thoughts On…
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Creativity and imagination needs to be constantly fed. Reading is an anytime, anywhere pastime Slow down. Excuses delay the inevitable. Make time for good conversation. Apply what you know. Chase the knowledge. Organize your desk. Make yourself so good that they don’t want to let…
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Aggregate Your News
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One of the pillars of the internet , next to e-mail, is the personal, humble blog. You know, the social internet, not social media. Creators, writers, photographers, video hosts, and podcasters all need to put their works on a site that they own and fully…