I recently caught this article on the BBC: People’s health could be harmed by social networking sites because they reduce levels of face-to-face contact, an expert claims. A lack of “real” social networking, involving personal interaction, may have biological effects, he suggests. He also says that evidence suggests that a lack of face-to-face networking could…
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A Halloween Scrooge
Being a Christian, I’m not one to celebrate Halloween, though I don’t begrudge people who do. I understand not everyone is going to be enlightened as me. :-D Still, it does get rather depressing that I always seem to take the minority view no matter what the subject is, or in this case, a minority…
Floating My Way Through Life
I am a square peg trying to fit into the circle that is life. At least that’s been my feeling lately. I’ve always had an eclectic personality that precluded me from being able to fit in anywhere, whether it was a church, a social club, or any kind of informal group that shared a common…
Playing with my wiki
Until recently I never really understood the concept of how a wiki based site worked, but after playing around with Wetpaint today I’m finally beginning to understand its appeal. Wetpaint allows you to build a free website based on a wiki platform, (similar to Wikipedia), only the difference here is that it’s more socially oriented,…
The Ultimate Blogger’s Toolbox – More than 80 links to tools and resources to help improve your blogging experience
Inspired by Mashable’s latest streak of publishing insane link lists for their readers (covering images, audio, video, analytics and podcasting), I decided to publish my own personal toolbox for bloggers in general. Enjoy! Analytics This Add This! – Make it easy for your visitors to bookmark your blog and subscribe to your feeds. Saves you…
Slogging Through My BlogLog
Ok… am I the ONLY one who gets more than a little frustrated when trying to use MyBlogLog? I understand the idea behind it, but it gets tedious clicking on a reader’s avatar, then having to click not once, but twice just to see that user’s blog, and so on. It’s just a lot of…
The Sound of One Man Tweeting
A writer at MSNBC recently took a look at the Twitter phenomenon and concluded that Twitter was ultimately boring and stupid. Maybe instead of spending her time clapping her hands and gleefully exclaiming, “Oooooh look at me, look at me! I actually get paid to write the crap I do!” she might see there’s more…
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