The French Resistance
France, the indomitable little village, is the only one with the power to resist for once and all the invasion of MySpace!
My Remix:
Posted at 03:21PM Jan 15, 2007 by Shelley Taylor in Social Networking |
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Me Me Me and Me, Too…
I love to write, but I’m having a hard time figuring out why I’d want my own 15 minutes of fame in the form of a blog. Stream of consciousness here…bear with me. 
I know how to criticize and analyze (having spent the last 20 years or so doing just that for a living), but I am struggling to define my POV. What’s the angle? What’s the benefit, not just for me, but for the readers (assuming that I find some)? Simply writing a blog feels so self indulgent, so ME ME ME. Who really cares? My friends, my family? Maybe my colleagues? Me? It makes me think of those YouTube videos with adolescents jumping on the bed playing their air guitars to a hit from their parents’ generation. Why not write their own music or jump on the bed to music of their own generation? Music repurposed. Where’s the soul in this? So why would I, too, want to do it? Why be a Me Too?
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Posted at 04:11PM Jan 09, 2007 by Shelley Taylor in Social Networking | Comments[1]
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Bonfire of the Vanities
“Vanity, definitely my favorite sin.”
-Al Pacino as the Devil (The Devil’s Advocate)
Now that the Holiday season has ended, I’m feeling a bit nostalgic and wondering what the New Year will bring. My boyfriend came to visit for Christmas, bringing along a copy of Time magazine. “You’ll be interested in this,” he said. I glanced at the cover -- “Time’s Person of the Year. You. Yes, you.” -- and became incredibly depressed.
That issue, published on Christmas Day, reminded me of another cover, long ago, that had quite the opposite effect on me. It shouted: “The 80s are over, greed goes out of style,” and was subtitled “The Rewards of Virtue.” The article’s prediction, that social conscience would be the way of the 90s, made me pause. Dare I hope? It almost seemed possible.
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Posted at 05:28PM Dec 29, 2006 by Shelley Taylor in Social Networking | Comments[48]
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