Grey, cold skies chill the bones of relationships. The wind forces a relationship between water and land, soggy sand erodes into cloudy water. Footprint now gone. A new order takes frozen communities and imperfectly rejuvenates them. Connection means energy, like the white crest of a wave waiting to crash. Creation in the face of destruction, [...]
So why, why, why do we keep hearing about social media, especially Twitter? Twitter only has 20 million users, which is nothing when compared to MySpace and Facebook, 60+ and 90+ million respectively. Yet we keep hearing about Twitter. Even though its growth has stopped skyrocketing, its usefulness has not. The exact reasons why Twitter [...]
Is it love from my parents? Should I have been coddled more? Communities form around sharing of some kind, the mutual fellowship or shared experience. I often question my ability to contribute to the communities I am in. This is especially unclear in how casually the word community can be used. Even Wikipedia states that [...]
Tonight was a good night of work at the theater. It all went by quickly. This was due to jovial conversation, joking, and comradeship. Just fun. The tips were good and I didn’t seem to have much on my mind. When I got home, of course after going out for a beer, stress via my [...]
In line with the class I am in, the existing theme of my blog, and the desire to have a topic that really motivates me to write, I want to highlight the use of, examples of, and characteristics of real change being made through the social web. This could be anything from looking at how [...]
