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Category: Change

  • So Twitter is [ ]

    Facebook is also facing head winds. I remember when it started, and this week it falls over (perhaps). So it seems that the classic content driven modes of sharing (blogs, messaging) are coming back. Granted this may be an artifact related to Tik-Tok, but we are certainly in a time of transition in technology and…

  • This may help…

    Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories. Yuval Noah Harari It seems that this is what we are all doing. Not specifically just now during the pandemic, but all the time. Context has just allowed us to to slow down and notice things a little more.…

  • Remixing stories or Isn’t the Encyclopedia dead?

    Remixing stories or Isn’t the Encyclopedia dead?

    The last time I posted I was thinking about how stories have value because they have some manner of permanence due to the media that is used to transmit them. Moving away from the digital ephemera that I talked about in that post, a visit to Disneyland, and the “Summer of Statues” got me thinking…

  • Stories everywhere

    I started poking at this idea back in October of 2017, but it wasn’t until earlier this month that a story in The Atlantic helped crystallize things for me. Over the last year and a bit, it seems that through the move fast and steal… sorry break stuff manner of Facebook, stories as a post format have…

  • Frozen February

    Frozen February

    Well birthday month is on us again. Between family and friends, there is quite a bit of celebrating to be had. But it’s also the month that the temperatures head back into the freezer. This year doesn’t seem to be that much different. One thing that is different is that this year, I’m changing my…