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Author of My Life as a Band Wife.
Tech blogger and humor writer Paul Carr recently released his book Sober Is My New Drunk, which details how he solved his drinking problem with the help of social media and why he found the Internet to be more useful than AA to stay clean and sober.
When the Wall Street Journal posted an excerpt of his book on its website, the trolls came out to play. They bet money that he’d be off the wagon in a year, chastising him for not joining AA with comments such as, “CONGRATULATIONS!!! Let us hear how YOUR steps are working for you in 20 years.” Others conveyed hope that Carr would start drinking again because he didn’t join the program.
Carr’s good friend Sarah Lacy came to his defense on PandoDaily, sharing her outrage at the way people are betting on her friend’s life and sharing the nasty things that had been said (primarily in blog post comments) about her throughout her career as a journalist.
#comments #trolls #coping #business #blogging #social media #InkHouse #PandoDaily #Sarah Lacy #Paul Carr #My Life as a Band Wife
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/12:58 PM
We can all find statistics and data that support the things we believe in — like veganism or the choice to eat meat, or being straightedge, or, well, being anything.
We all have our opinions and our preferences. Why do we have to force our beliefs down eachothers throats if we don’t see eye to eye?
A woman in Wellesley pulled up next me at a stoplight and began to berate me, making text motions with fingers and shaking her head, signaling that I shouldn’t be texting while I’m driving.
Well, I wasn’t texting, I was changing music on my iPod…while I was at the stop light. Which, in case you were unaware, is safer than changing it while I’m driving.
Lest anyone forget that I was a reporter that covered some really nasty, deadly car crashes — one in which a man was crushed by tow truck while in the back seat of a friend’s car.
Another accident involved one of my friends. I’ll never forget what he looked like when they pulled him from the wreck.
I’ve seen things that most people only read about, and I can assure you that I won’t be the one you have to worry about.
Why do people have to be so ignorantly judgemental?
#texting #driving #music #judgement #rant #personal
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/08:39 AM
So there I was, once again, thinking of something I could possibly give my input on. I was trying to gain some inspiration by reading Laura’s posts –as I usually do- and voila! Here it goes.
Whenever you’re associated with any sort of known relationship that requires a lot of smiles,…
Laura Paine has a simple answer when asked why Pinterest exploded in popularity at this particular juncture in Internet history. The former reporter watched her newspaper cut positions, go from being a daily to a weekly and focus more on creating short, Q&A pieces, video and photo galleries in an effort to cling to dwindling online traffic.
“People aren’t really reading anymore,” said Paine, who now works for the public relations firm InkHouse.
A new Engauge white paper breaks down the make-up of the average Pinterest user and shows that the end result of less reading is more of a focus on content curation than creation. The timing of that trend, combined with a stunning design when Internet users are focusing more on visual than text, has allowed Pinterest to explode in popularity.
“Creation takes a lot of time where curation takes just seconds,” Paine said. “Pinterest allows us all to be thought leaders on fashion, food and travel destinations without needing to do the research ourselves.”
(Click the headline to read more)
#ReadWriteWeb #Pinterest #Opinion #Content Curation #Social Media
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/06:56 PM
Relationships are a funny thing. Psychologists tell us that the key to a healthy and long-lasting relationship is communication, openness, separate hobbies and keeping the sex life hoppin’. But according to recent research from Bar-Ilan University, the real key to every-lasting love is…
You’re going to LOVE The Fancy.
It was only a matter of time before websites similar to the increasingly popular Pinterest started to pop up out of the woodwork. The Fancy describes itself as “part store, blog, magazine and wishlist,” and it’s the store piece that’s really differentiating the platform from its competitor. The site allows you to “Fancy” anything you see on the Web so you can return to it at a later time.
Well, folks, we’re getting there.
On Feb. 7, a three-judge panel in the Federal District Court of the Northern District of California ruled that Proposition 8 is in violation of the constitutional right of gay men and lesbians in California.
Gee, you think?
From The New York Times:
But Tuesday’s 2-to-1 decision was much more narrowly framed than the sweeping ruling of Judge Walker, who asserted that barring same-sex couples from marrying was a violation of the equal protection and due process clauses of the Constitution.
The two judges on Tuesday stated explicitly that they were not deciding whether there was a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry, instead ruling that the disparate treatment of married couples and domestic partners since the passage of Proposition 8 violated the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause.
“Although the Constitution permits communities to enact most laws they believe to be desirable, it requires that there be at least a legitimate reason for the passage of a law that treats different classes of people differently,” Judge Stephen R. Reinhardt wrote in the decision. “There was no such reason that Proposition 8 could have been enacted.”
adding you on all of those networks, hope that's cool. =)plaidscarf
Hells yeah!! That makes me happy. I need to catch up on your blog!
