Searching for Meaning and Relevance
When you do a search on the internet, are you more often looking for meaning or relevance? We search for: Meaning in others and relevance in our thoughts.
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No Bad News
Janna is fond of replying to the question — “Do you want the bad news first or the good news first?” — by saying “There is no bad or good, you have to deal with it all.”
That’s an incredibly mature way of dealing with life.
I am not quite so mature.
I always prefer the Bad News first because that is obviously the most conditional and powerful cudgel the teller of the news hopes use to influence your behavior: Get the chit out of the way so you can enjoy the cream.
When Words Go Wrong
Is a writer an author or just a fixer?
Is it possible words can go wrong?
Or is only the one who fixes words against each other to blame if context and meaning are skewed in understanding?
How can we possibly begin to comprehend each other in the language of a common tongue if words can have different meanings based on position in a sentence and the character of the fixer?
Do words ever have a proper ending? Or do they just eternally float in space waiting for new interpretations, inspirations and analysis by boring minds?
Do Books Create Sound?
In a previous article — Audio Books: Is Hearing Reading? — we asked aloud if listening to a book with your ears provided an identical experience as reading one with your eyes.
Blog Depression in Fourteen Million
Do blogs create democracy and foment The Citizen Journalist?
Or are all bloggers just begging the wind?
Here are some sobering numbers reported on The McLaughlin Group over the weekend:
- 140,000 new blogs started each day
- One blog is created every second
- 14 million new blogs are started a year
Is there a point to blogging any longer or will the little people with the small — but important — voices be drowned out by the traditional Big Media sites who will suck all the bandwidth and chew up all the pertinent search returns?
Is the Golden Age of Blogging now dead?
Memory or Meme or Me?
Inevitable Us and the United We
The world requires us.
We are inevitable.
We become not what we want — but what others desire of us.
If were were unnecessary, we would not be here.
What, then, do we do with this complicated life when the risk of throwing it away outweighs the rewards of righteousness?
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