Some decisions are just common sense: I don’t friend the kids of friendz, nor the friendz of my own kids. Rule of thumb: as a middle-aged man, never send a friend request to one of your daughter’s girlfriends. Or boyfriends, for that matter. It’s just creepy. And as a teacher, I don’t friend my students. [...]
Last time on this space, I was writing about the somewhat surreal experience of reading through my Facebook Friendz recommendations, carefully. Some things just aren’t meant to be read carefully: Paul Ryan’s Republican budget proposal, for instance; FB Friendz recommendations. That notwithstanding—I did. And, of course, I took a pass on nearly all of them. [...]
Like anyone who has a Facebook account, I get e-mails occasionally telling me that someone or other wants to be “friends.” I’m normally pretty accommodating, I think; though like most thoughtful people, I resist the idea that these shared data streams actually constitute friendships. I could write the rest of this post putting the terms [...]
For the last two days, I’ve been trying to think about the benefits and drawbacks of various, let’s say sizes, of writing. Among the various sizes of canvas I use on a regular basis, a blog post falls right about in the middle: longer that a Tweet, longer than most memos or e-mails (“business” genres [...]
So: Tweet < Facebook status update < Blog post < Magazine column < Journal article/Book chapter < Book I was thinking yesterday in terms of four or perhaps five different-sized portholes through which one peers out at the world, and the four or five writing genres to which they’re attached; today, I’m thinking it’s more [...]
I know, I know: on-again, off-again: worse than Oprah’s engagement(s). I’m sorry. I had decided about three weeks ago that the jig was up: I wasn’t having any success carving out time to write, and I was depressed about my lack of success. So that, in my head at least, I started writing The Last [...]
So as I mused out loud on Twitter and Facebook yesterday, I sometimes wonder whether, rather than going to all the trouble to write an original blog post every morning, I should just tweet during the every-weekday-afternoon broadcast of Inside Edition. There’s an entire world in there, delivered in 30-minute installments. In the age of [...]
My thesis, in yesterday’s post, was that Twitter and Facebook together have made attending a conference a lot richer, and a lot more complicated. Which are perhaps two ways of saying the same thing. Richer (cont.): I’m sure all of this—the invasion of conferences by Twitter and Facebook—isn’t news to many of you; I’m sure [...]
[Confession: I’m so new to Twitter, and Facebook, that I don’t yet know all the insider lingo. I’m sure I’ve made a hash, or perhaps hashtag, of it: I’m grateful for corrections. Teach me your secret language, O my Twitter and Facebook masters!] I spent last weekend in Seattle, at the Experience Music Project’s annual [...]