There are digital natives and there are the digimudgeons. The digimudgeons are already over the internet. They were clicking and dragging Geocities sites before most people even had dial-up in their own homes. They joined Facebook when it was a college-only site. The signed up for Twitter in 2007 before their bosses and families were on there. They miss Television Without Pity and Google Reader. And they are pretty sure the social web is destroying…
We used to gaze at each other for hours, lit by curiosity and liquid crystal. Forgive me for bringing this up so suddenly. I know it’s been a while. It’s just that tonight on the drive home I got to thinking about the times we shared, and how I discovered so much of myself through you, with you. And how much I pine for those days. They were simpler. We were learning so much so…
The buttery and soothing tones of Brooke Gladstone’s voice informed me tonight on the drive home from work that Television Without Pity is no more. The archives will stay up but NBC Universal, which owns the site (?????), has shuttered it and there will be no new recaps. I haven’t been on TWoP in years but this still hurts my heart all the same. I suppose it is just another fact of life when you’ve…
I have GOT to work on my SEO.
Any time I see someone hanging around the blog for a few days, reading hundreds of pages of the archives in spans that last hours, I want to know if they are digging for dirt or if they think that have found a kindred spirit. I’m pretty sure I know, but I still like to wonder.
Google Reader is basically worthless now. They’ve removed all the share functions and the “add to reader” bookmarlet doesn’t work anymore, so my prime method of bookmarking and sharing interesting stuff on the web has evaporated. I can still read through the feeds I’m subscribed to, yes, but now all those neat, weird little tidbits that would cross my radar thanks to the smart, funny people I pal around with on Reader will no longer…
The bots have discovered sarcasm: That is a super-peachy-keen post. Thanks for really blathering on like that! Seriously, I don’t think I could have spent more effort wishing for something heavy to fall on me to erase that nonsense from my mind! Ouch, sort of!
Remember this bit of strategic foreshadowing? No? Well, that’s why Al Gore invented the hyperlink. So my pal Ed and I sat down and had a little chat about the social web and what a sticky wicket it is, and we recorded that conversation for posterity and for a time capsule element I will one day beam into my children’s head pods’ humor modules. My one regret is that I was having such a mouth-stuffing…
My friend Ed was kind enough to ask me to blather on and on into a microphone about The Internet the other day. Details on that to come a little later. Our server at Republic Coffee saw us hooked up to lapel mics and wanted to know what we were doing, exactly. “This is how we give blood,” Ed quipped. Good show. [Project 365]
I have a Tumblr. I’ve had it for a long time, but never done anything with it since I’ve got the blog and the Twitter and the Flickr and the dear god all that other crap. I finally figured out what to use it for. Phone photodump! You know, if you are into that sort of thing.
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