Category: Social Media
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How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (#BookReviews)
“Read Like an Artist,” this week’s topic for Austin Kleon‘s weekly newsletter, mentions his new book club. And the first book in this book club is How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. That grabbed my attention immediately. I started reading the sample and then proceeded to deactivate Twitter one more time. Yes, I’d […]
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#DeleteTwitter Countdown: April 30, 2021
Two days ago I deleted my Twitter account again. As a member since 2007, it’s been hard for me to pull the final plug and allow it to expire in 30 days, which is how you delete Twitter. Actually, you deactivate and 30 days later, if you don’t log in, your account is deleted. I’ve […]
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“Never Met a Machine I Didn’t Like”
Will Rogers may have said, “I never met a man I didn’t like,” but my mother once said, “I never met a machine I didn’t like.” Reading some of the “End of Absence” book I mentioned in my previous post, I realized a couple of things: The problem today isn’t the internet, it’s social media […]
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If Politics is the New Religion, Then Twitter is Church
I read somewhere that “politics is the new religion” and a light went off. So that’s why we all seem so divided and verbal about it today. This is a recent thing. Even if my childhood was long ago when people agreed not to discuss “politics or religion,” until recently, people really didn’t. I’ve been […]
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My First Podcast: Cruise Ship Night Life
Missing cruise ship night life? Okay, so maybe you’re missing night life of any kind. But cruise ship nightlife is pretty much all the night life I do. Or did. So I created a dance track using a few of the new tracks I created during FAWM, and upload it to YouTube. It was so […]
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Kathy Holmes or Screamie Birds? Challenges of an Indie Author/Artist
I’ve written a bit about how I’m trying to juggle being both an Indie Author and an Indie Artist, writing novels and producing EDM (Electronic Dance Music). But it seems the world wants to know exactly who and what you are and trying to juggle both isn’t really following the rules of creating a brand. […]
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The Last of Social Media
Several years ago I finally empowered myself to finally completely sever my relationship with Facebook and have never been happier making that decision. Instagram was easier to walk away from. Twitter has been more difficult. I deactivate/activate my account several times a month these days. In December, I almost made it through the month, going […]
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