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Moby, Natural Blues
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Something is not going where you want it to go. Not fast enough.
It’s not taking you where you expected to get.
Social Media. Blogging. Your job. Your relationships. Whatever.
You have dreams and vision, but the long road of hope smells like fingers – as Bill Dorman has said.
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Bill Dorman seems ready to throw in the social media towel. He seems to be asking, What’s the point? Of blogging.
Jack Steiner might suggest that there is no point, he writes because he must. Is he also saying, don’t write – if the words do not demand to be written?
John Magnet Bell labors over the hors d’oeuvres – obsessed with bite-size, tasty, ornamental metaphors that might possibly excite, titillate, and arouse you. To start your novel.
Myself – just another online… creep seeking beauty in myself, in others, and out there in the world.
More importantly, I am just another creep who uses more snark than is necessary, who stumbles and falls face-flat over the minefields of irony, happy facing, and ambiguity, and who unabashedly embarrasses himself in reiterations of a persistent and spectacularly naive (gawdy?) sincerity.
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Radiohead, Creep
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The four named characters have each publicly expressed a strong and compelling desire to write and publish separate novels that search for answers, coherence, and lucidity about each’s individual destiny, soul and experience. They consider that blogging and social media may serve this ambition (and other ambitions). None, however, are truly intoxicated by blogging. None blog in innocence – the kind of innocence that publishes every blog post with a bloody smile (to borrow an expression from Milan Kundera).
They have yet to apprehend the art of the blog (let alone the novel) nor do they own the blog post like a rodeo star who rides an incensed bull to the cheers of the audience. Like everyone else (A-listers included), they are caught up in the mad toss of rushing streams that come and go like flash floods. And in the absence of torrential rainfall, there is always despair, doubt and/or the fateful walking in ellipses – as apparent servants to an unfortunate Euclidian Geometry (not as masters of their own fate).
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What is blogging? Is it art (the 21st century’s answer to the novel) or flimsy counterfeit (21st Century Kitsch)?
This question, above all, promises to release our characters and, perhaps, millions from the tyranny of unforgiving axes – major and minor.
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Is a blog lyrical, epic or both?
The lyrical is self-revelation. The epic is a discovery of the self in the contents contained out there in the world.
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Does blogging serve Destiny?
The thing for which we are but shadows; that divine form which is ourselves, perfectly, and reminds us that, today, we are incomplete, unfinished and paltry.
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If you, yourself, are a blogger, can you answer these intimate questions in a manner that speaks to Beauty and consoles (or uplifts) the human heart? If so (or not), I welcome your answers and contribution in the comments.
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Stan Faryna
31 October 2012
Bucharest, Romania
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Decide for yourself and let me know in the comments.
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Ben E. King, Stand By Me
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Decide for yourself and let me know in the comments.
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Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit
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The NYT Best Blog List is widely considered the preeminent list of blogs everywhere. Published weekly, the list is based on weekly reader reports from independent, online search and analytics. Readership measurement includes key signals in a given week: number of readers, time spent reading, mentions, reach, and other factors believed to reflect a blog’s currency. The list includes 100 categories including popular genres such as daddy bloggers, fiction and social media.
Gramatik, Dream BIG
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I’ve been trying to write a blog post to wrap up the year. It’s not coming easily to the keyboard. My mind is distracted by pain. I am surrounded by it in a manner of speaking. My stomach, my bowels, my back, my legs, etcetera. I have several challenges to overcome and my recovery from salmonella is slower than I like.
The one human being that stands out this year. The one man that stands above all others for me. The one young man this year for which I am most grateful of another’s service to me is Christian Hollingsworth. His Week of Faryna rocked my world, his very generous donation to Nisha’s water project rocked my heart, and his personal card of encouragement that I received by post -it lifted me up.
Not because the Week of Faryna is fresh on my list of people and things for which I am grateful!
The timing, however, is perfect. Because it was a difficult year set with many challenges and, yes, even traps and petty conspiracies. Nonetheless, it is good to end the year overwhelmed with gratitude. Read the rest of this entry »
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Lots of treats. Maybe a few tricks. All we can be sure of is that winter is coming.
I read a lot of blogs. Maybe, too many. I comment on a lot of blog posts. Maybe, too many. If you are a Triberrati, you do too.
A Triberrati is a blogger that stands out in the Triberr community. Triberr is a web app that connects bloggers and helps them to curate each other on Twitter. You can learn all about Triberr by reading any of the following posts about it.
1. James St. John, Triberr: They Want To Change The World
2. Yomar Lopez, How Triberr Changes The Competitive Landscape
3. Neicole Crepeau, Friday Fives: Tips For Using Triberr
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Gary Portnoy, Where everybody knows your name (Cheers theme song)
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I read a lot of blogs. Maybe, too many. I comment on a lot of blog posts.Maybe, too many. If you are a Triberrati, you do too.
A Triberrati is a blogger that stands out in the Triberr community. Triberr is a web app that connects bloggers and helps them to curate each other on Twitter. You can learn all about Triberr by reading any of the following posts about it.
1. Yomar Lopez, How Triberr Changes The Competitive Landscape
2. Jason Yormark, Triberr: How I Increased My Reach to Over 300000…
3. Neicole Crepeau, Friday Fives: Tips For Using Triberr
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Gary Portnoy, Where everybody knows your name (Cheers theme song)
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