Tag Archives: Social media

Eternal Life For Pennies A Day

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

In the future, we’ll all be famous for 15 minute eternities. We will live on, in digital form, as long as artificial intelligence, computers, and our robot overlords allow us. This is a new phenomenon. Thousands of years ago, it … Continue reading →

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Word of the Year – More Like Word of the Century

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

Dictionary.com has seen the future. They picked their word of the year for 2011, but it should really be our word for the next 100 years. “Tergiversate” means to quickly and rapidly change your loyalties and affiliations. The signs are … Continue reading →

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The Age-Old Debate Over Stonehenge Vs. Beanie Babies

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

It now takes about a day for a decade’s worth of information to happen. Does that make sense? This is why we should structure our messages more like Stonehenge and less like Beanie Babies. Let me explain. In the middle … Continue reading →

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The Next Billion-Dollar Idea: A Giant Internet Love Fest

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg I’ve been on Facebook for a few years now. Many of my friends are jumping the Zuckerberg Ship and heading over to Google+. They are the early adopters, and the newest thing always seems … Continue reading →

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Death – The Last Internet Taboo

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

Here is a sad thought. After your death, more people will post condolences on your Facebook page than actually visit your real, dead, analog, human body in the funeral parlor. The internet is no longer an invention. It is now … Continue reading →

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Our Next Lexical Gap – When Books No Longer Come Between Two Covers

Posted on June 21, 2011 by

Many books nowadays have movie posters as their front covers. But what if a book was a movie? What if you watched your book like a film? Does that still count as reading? Writing and publishing are technologies. This means … Continue reading →

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We’re All Hipsters Now

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

Since its inception in the 1940s and 50s, “Cool” was a club most of us couldn’t enter. Being cool always meant you were different, in, happening, an outsider, or against the mainstream society at large. The working middle class didn’t … Continue reading →

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Ernest Hemingway, Elephants, and E-Commerce

Posted on April 2, 2011 by

Ernest Hemingway is considered one of the greatest modern writers of the Twentieth Century. His prose has been accused of creating a whole new way to write novels, or a whole new way to ruin them. Either way, Papa Ernie … Continue reading →

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Twitter Kills Another

Posted on March 30, 2011 by

People are living with increased dichotomy and split personalities. It is now apparent that most humans participating in the modern world have both an analog life and a digital one as well. One, we live by the clock, in our … Continue reading →

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