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April 6, 2013

mylifeasabandwife:

New blog - Laura is Imaginary. I hope you’ll read and follow!

http://lauraisimaginary.blogspot.com

_♥L

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November 11, 2012

My aunt and cousin brought some bulbs over for me today. Excited to watch them grow!

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June 13, 2012

When it rains, New Englanders forget how to drive

This morning while I was getting ready, Hank Morse said, “It’s going to take a looong time to get to work today.” The last time he said that, it took me three hours to get to work. But I thought I would give it a try.

Oops.

So after it took 45 minutes to drive 11 miles, and I still hadn’t hit the second segment (of three) of my drive to work, I turned around and started my work day from home.

Rain may not be snow, but drivers still need to learn to slow down and take it easy for everyone’s safety and commute. Sigh.

#weather #traffic #work #home #office #New England #Massachusetts #rain
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June 9, 2012

A comic about anxiety.

heymonster:

At least that’s what it’s like for me.

This.

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April 27, 2012

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April 24, 2012

A 4 step program for coping with trolls

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.

April 11, 2012

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?

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March 28, 2012

On minding your own business and withholding your judgement

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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March 25, 2012

My Life as a Band Wife: The Golden Rule

mylifeasabandwife:

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,…

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March 19, 2012

The Curation-Over-Creation Trend That Fueled Pinterest's Rapid Growth

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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