The Danger of Trading Essence for Experience
Today we live in danger of surviving only in essences and not experiences.
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Proof of Life: Dying to Blog
You and I know blogging is a job — and a genetic obsession — and now, thanks to The New York Times, everyone else knows blogging is killing us all.
Welcome to RelationShaping ->(
Welcome to David W. Boles RelationShaping! The intent of this blog is to examine, “The Spear of Technology Piercing the Body In Situ ->(” and we thank you for joining us!
Where We Are Going: 2008 Predictions
Hooray for 2008 and I hope your year is joyous and not yet bloody!
Banning Cell Phones in Public Places
Have you ever been with a group of friends, having a good time – talking, or whatever activity you may have been involved in – when everything was abruptly interrupted by the ringing of a mobile phone?
My Kingdom for a Kindle or Two or Six!
The $400.00USD Amazon Kindle eReader sold out in less than five hours on its debut day November 20th. The next batch sold out even quicker — I was lucky to get one delivered Friday — and the third batch of Kindles will not be available for purchase until after December 25th.
Two Crowns for the Lack of a Helmet
Sometimes the things that happen to us that seem the most trivial end up being some of the most significant, with repercussions that last years, even decades.
Shedding Shared Values as Black Identity Splinters Within
The PewReseachCenter released a wild new report last week concerning the Growing Values Gap in the Black Community that suggests a shedding of shared community values that is leading to a splintering of traditional Black interests in the USA.
You may have already heard about the disconnect between Whites and Blacks when it comes to Blacks being better off now than they were five years ago:
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The Digital Age of Electronic Self-Publishing: How Long is a Book?
We recently wondered here — How Long is a Piece of String? — and today I’d like to take that question to the next thought to ask: “How Long is a Book?”
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Naked Blogging as Semiotics Shall Rule the Word
We are living in the Golden Age of Text. We most effectively communicate on blogs, in email and via instant messages where The Word is King. However, in the next five years or so we will toss away our text — along with our newly enhanced ability to cogently write to persuade others — in favor of video: Semiotics Shall Rule the Word. There are active rumors that the next iPhone will have a touch screen that is a camera so you can do live video conferencing via iChat right on your phone. There is one proof-of-concept using the current iPhone that persuasively argues for video communication over text right now.
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