Blogging… Losing Popularity?
The increasing speed of daily life makes people impatient and shortens their attention spans. So do things like high-speed Internet, microwave ovens, commercial-free radio/TV, and the instant...
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Before I had my own computer and when I still did most of my writing on paper, my greatest fear was fire because that was the only thing that could really destroy all my writing and render it...
View ArticleThe Fate of Your Online Accounts
Kind of a morbid topic for a Friday, but I read an article that posed the question of what should happen to our online accounts when we die. Should they be automatically shut down? Should they be left...
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I don’t know whether any of you have heard of the Internet Wayback Machine, but it indeed exists. If you enter a URL, the Wayback Machine brings up images of that site from the past. As an experiment,...
View ArticleSharing… Not Always Caring
The only social media sites I’m on and use regularly are this blog and Tumblr. But oddly enough, every time something vaguely interesting happens to me or I come up with a witty statement, I have the...
View ArticleCritique Sites: The Blind Leading the Blind?
So many writing and “critique” sites out there promise that you will get feedback when you upload your work. FictionPress, Critique Circle, Figment, Booksie, etc., all have friendly communities of...
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