communication. community. cognition.
A couple of months ago I wrote about the art exhibit on loan from Yale that spent some time here in Birmingham. The so-called "emerging behaviors" (snide snark) that we attribute to blogging and impersonal technology were on display even then, in the … [Continue reading]
I wrote before about what you might expect to get from this site, as a way to help me focus. The right focus can bring together some amazing conversations, as Venessa Miemis has been able to do. Maybe a little personal backstory is in order. I … [Continue reading]
We don't really need a Reason to Be, but it certainly helps to occasionally step back and look at a larger picture. What is Occam's RazR? What do I want it to be? It's not what we saw from the first incarnation of the "personal weblog." I don't … [Continue reading]
The weirdest people in Waco were not the ones at the top of the hill. (More from the mcarp archives... the prophetic genius and brilliance are his; the ones/zeros, pixels, pictures and subheads and pull-quotes are mine.) Greetings from Satellite … [Continue reading]
Sometime this week, I will go over 5,000 followers on Twitter. If it's a typical day, I'll snag a handful of people, but later than day I will lose a few who are either spammers who got their accounts busted or people who got offended that I didn't … [Continue reading]
In many issues of communication, color does matter. Some colors evoke strength, some safety, some progress, and some security. Some project cowardice, and others royalty. The mistake is in assuming too much - that a spectrum of colors will cover … [Continue reading]
This is from the archive at my old blog. But it's still relevant. "You never get a second chance to make a first impression." Boy, we all sweat over that one, don't we? To know that a potential lifetime relationship, be it personal or business, … [Continue reading]