This sucks
Getting back to reading blogs, after months of neglect, and I find out that my friend Derek has been diagnosed with colorectal cancer. This sucks big time. Aren’t bloggers immune to all diseases and bad luck?
I really wish you the best, Derek. You are such an awesome person.
Please forgive our appearance…
Yes, I know. I’m having a hell of a time keeping my blog updated and I really miss blogging. Starting to work at Google felt as uneventful as being hit by a train. Changing city, adjusting to my commute, and in three months traveling to the West Coast twice, and to Italy once. Frequent travelers will say “so, what?” but for me it was enough displacement to make me sick for two months (that and the warm winter, which everybody seems to have suffered from).
Google is a place full of really smart people moving really fast and for the first two months it felt like I was running like crazy just to keep the pace with everybody else; and breathing hard while running. Now that I’m getting used to the environment, the anxiety has settled, and I’ve learned enough to function, I’m enjoying it a lot. [And I confirm again: the food is fantastic, even for NYC standards.]
All this has changed me somehow. I feel freer and and I’m a lot more confused (The title of Barbara Sher’s book, I could do anything if I only knew what it was, comes to mind), which makes writing really difficult. I have all this raw stuff spinning in my head and in my soul; the dust has not yet settled and it’s hard to see clearly. (And yet, sometimes I have flashes of pure clarity, where things seems sharper and in focus than they have never been before).
So, I’m going to post a sign on my blog that says: “Please forgive our appearance as we regain clarity and perspective.”
Don’t worry about me, I’m still here!
Sorry for the long absence. It turns out that I can’t write or think straight when the world spins too fast around me, everything moves, I travel too many thousands of miles around the globe, and I get a nasty flu. But it seems that I survived the roller coaster ride for now and I’m ready for blogging.
Local Showcase: Fact-esque
The latest Philly Future featured blog is Fact-esque (the name comes from Stephen Colbert’s quote: “It’s been widely reported and that makes it fact-esque.”) Fact-esque is political, progressive, and anti-torture: who can ask for anything more?
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How to Blog: 4. Blog Networking
So, now you have a blog. What do you want to do with it? You can use it as an online publishing tool to create a website and put content on the internet. But you would be missing the wonderful potential that blogs have to connect people and ideas.
Most of us use blogs as a social and networking tool. We want others to see and hear what we’ve created. We enjoy finding other people who share our passions and see the world in the same way we do—or perhaps in a completely different way. We want to find people who say interesting things and discuss topics we care about.
If you too belong to the second category, you should learn something about blog networking. Find people you like and would like to connect with; go out and let other people know that you have a blog, are interested in what they say, and would like to start a conversation with them.
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