I just had a powerful realization about all of the time that I've spent posting on social media. Yes, we can talk about doomscrolling and how mind-numbing social media can be. But what makes this act so mind-numbing is that the mysterious corporate media filters are deciding what we see for us. My social media … Continue reading evading the corporate media filters
Category: blogging
the Blogthings website still exists? is it still 2005?
Blogthings was a creature of the early blogging years. A time when blogging was starting to get popular and before Facebook began to dominate. As a customer-minded business dedicating to meeting the needs of its customers, they saw a need bloggers had. The need for interesting content. Every Emily, Dylan, Tiffany, Ryan, Amanda, and multiples of twenty-seven Jennifers were jumping in on the blogging bandwagon. This was cool, until you had to, you know, write interesting content. Which not many were skilled at.
this sonofabitch old blog is back
An old blog is back. Run for your lives.
a break from blogging–i’ve already slowed down, so I’ve just decided to stop…for now…
There are many things I wish to tell you, but I cannot bear to post them right now.
five years of the different drummer soundtrack
Five years ago tonight I posted my first little post on this new blog called The Different Drummer Soundtrack. It was a very brief and rather silly little post where I likened working with my new blog and website to hijacking an alien space ship, and not being very sure how to drive it. Half a decade later, this "space ship" and I have taken a rather amazing journey.
four years of blogging, and the soundtrack is back
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the first post on The Different Drummer Soundtrack.
NaBloPoMo = sodium blow-pops in missouri?
That's what NaBloPoMo stands for, right? Na is the chemical symbol for sodium, BloPo has to stand for Blow-Pops, and Mo is the abbreviation for Missouri. Sodium blow-pops in Missouri? Well, no.
the realm of unmatched socks, pocketed business cards and unused social networking pages
I was a Friendster once. Technically, I still am. One of my housemates urged me to sign up sometime in 2004. He was trying to explain the concept to me, and I must admit that at the time I had a bit of difficulty grasping it. It was something about having friends and being able to see friends of friends. It sounded strangely similar to the practice of collecting baseball cards.
i am leaving Mahikari
But what I’ve posted about Mahikari is only half the story. It was only half of me talking.
welcome to Post, my new media
This is my 123rd post on The Different Drummer Soundtrack, but my first post on Post. At the risk of making myself sound like a cereal commerical, I figured that I should make my first post on Post about…Post.