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  • Notes On Blogging

    Blogging is part of the social internet, as opposed to the walled-off apps of social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram…). You own your blog web address and its content instead of renting space from companies intent on keeping you inside their confines as they sell data about you.  Blogging is free of the Liking economy, but Continue reading

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  • On Going All In: Ten Reasons To Blog

    It’s out of date now—most people prefer reading weekly or monthly newsletters, or trance out scrolling through a billion Instagram photos of others performing their lives and framing the world filtered just so—but blogging old-fashioned text still works, still has a place, especially for longer form content. I like blogs. One of my favorites is Continue reading

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  • A Way Of Thinking About A Blog

    “What was it that I really wanted? That was when I recognized that my subject was the natural history of the summer night. But there was no such subject, so I stopped.” “Then I quickly remembered the significance of sitting still and waiting, for stories or whatever. Sooner or later everything seems to be part Continue reading

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  • On The Nature Of Blogs V: Reflections On Stability And Instability

    A friend recently pointed out the use of the word “destabilize” in one of my Ventrilo-Dialogues. Here’s the video: He liked the idea of “destabilizing the notion of authorship” enough that he mentioned it to me several times. That got me thinking. And since it was me who wrote those words in the first place Continue reading

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  • On The Nature Of Blogs III

    I have written before (here and here) about the nature of blogs and blogging. To add to that discussion, here’s four more ideas to add to the pile. This blog may be more for me than for you (though you’re welcome to it) because it’s an opportunity to: practice writing publicly, exercise efforts at inquiry Continue reading

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