The 21 Twitter Personality Disorders

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Over the past two years, with the aid of a small group of sociologists, psychologists and curious onlookers, I have been capturing, tagging, and documenting the various types of personalities who use social media through the Twitter platform. Originally, I was going to post these results in two installments, the first featuring normal personalities, and [...]

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Five C’s & Two E’s Towards a Decent Blog Following

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A good friend of mine (who has asked to be anonymous) has been blogging almost daily for four years. His writing is good. His posts are well-thought out, and many are meticulously researched. His graphics and layout are very well done. Every post includes an interesting picture. He has had more than 100,000 hits since [...]

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What You Could Learn from Mafia Wars

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Now before you say it, yes I know: You either love it or hate it. But whether or not you’re a fan of this remarkable brainchild of Zynga Games, there is one thing you cannot deny – you know about it.
Now to most, Mafia Wars is the conveyor of those annoying messages on Facebook and [...]

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The Film Avatar as an Avatar Itself

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I finally took the kids to see Avatar in 3D this weekend, and there are two things I need to get off my chest, two confessions if you will.
First, I was mesmerized through the entire film, as were my children.
Then, second, but unlike my children, the Mesmer-effect had already worn off by the [...]

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Virtual Poetry Reading

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This is a video I made for a YouTube / Facebook project, 100 Poems in 100 Days, created by Mark Ruddick from the University of Exeter in the UK, and involving poets and spoken word artists from around the world. I thought it was a pretty cool project and was very happy to participate.

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2010: Interlude for the Dark Ages?

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Hey! Welcome to the new decade. Where have you been? And what took you so long to get here?
It is truly a wondrous time to be alive, isn’t it? The gadgets we have, the amount of information at our disposal through our computers and the internet… it just staggers the imagination.
Go back fifty years [...]

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Is Genius in the Hair?

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In the film Withnail & I, Danny, a drug-dealing hippie, played by Ralph Brown, proposes that hair is an aerial that connects us to the cosmos, and transmits signals directly into the brain. “This is the reason,” he said, “bald-headed men are uptight.”
Perhaps there is something to this, though we are by now long past [...]

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The Digital Divide – are you a native or an immigrant?

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Which side of the Digital Divide would you place yourself? Are you a digital native, or an immigrant, or do you find yourself straddling both sides, suspecting this divide is as arbitrary as daylight savings time, and as meaningless as The Pepsi Generation?
I have been asking myself that very question since a couple new books [...]

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The Art of Journal Writing

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Daily journal writing is a practice that is invaluable to creating a relationship with the open page, and for renewing your relationship with yourself. This is true whether you are a blogger, a novelist or screenwriter, poet, or someone who just has the need to write down her own thoughts once in a while.
Growing up [...]

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Three Cups of Tea – a book review

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Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson is an extraordinary story about one man’s quest to make the world a better place, working on one child’s future at a time.
After a failed attempt to climb K2, the harshest mountain in the world, Greg Mortenson made a promise to the villagers who saved his life: he [...]

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