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April 2010

Two Twitter Trending Topic Poems

April 30, 2010
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On the Twitter homepage, users can see Twitter’s 10 trending topics. These can include the most popular hashtags or the most widely-tweeted words and phrases. The top 10 trending topics are constantly changing, and they can be organized by specific location or worldwide. I decided to write two 10-line poems to honor the topics.

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How to Brainstorm a Concept for a Blog

April 28, 2010
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Choosing a blog concept is difficult because your decision sets the stage for the future of your blog. You don’t want to limit yourself by being too specific, but you should try to create and maintain a niche that will help you build an audience of interested readers. The first post will be the most difficult post.

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Constructive Criticism > Combative Commenters

April 27, 2010
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The web has so much potential to be a place where educated, well-intentioned people share constructive criticism with one another. When someone shares an idea or a piece of writing, that person could ask for and access feedback from hundreds of thousands of readers! We could establish mutually-beneficial relationships!

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SWF Seeks a Good Story

April 26, 2010
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On Friday, I had lunch with my friend Mark Bonner, a writer and editor based in New York City. Among other things, we discussed online dating and the ways that social networking has changed (ruined?) how people date today. We both agreed that online dating lessens the chance that a couple will have a good story to tell.

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10 Ways the Web Has “Standardized” Emotion

April 23, 2010
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Facebook didn’t consider its users’ maturity levels when it launched the new “Like” feature. I’m happy that users are playing with “Like” because the concept should never be taken seriously. Pages like “in the butt” actually fill me with hope for humanity.Some social networks have tried to “standardize” human emotions.

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