Society
Posted on May 24, 2012. Filed under: Ramblings, Public Relations, Social Media, Sporting life, Digital Dalliances, Society | Tags: ancient Rome, Walter Winchell |
“I come from a long line of dead people,” novelist Lawrence Block observed via one of his tough-guy detective characters. No truer words were ever spoken. So far as we know, no person to date has ever lived forever. Candidates are out there – baseball slugger Ted Williams was famously put on cryogenic ice post-mortem, with [...]
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Posted on February 7, 2012. Filed under: Public Relations, Social Media, Society | Tags: Chambers Brothers, George Bernard Shaw, LinkedIn, Nelson Algren, social media |
Get socialized! It’s my new thing, a sort of accidental New Year’s resolution: know more about, and do more in, the social media world. Reminds me of the ’60′s line, “My soul has been psychedelicized” by The Chambers Brothers. Were I writing in the 1930s, you might take me for a convert to Leninism — [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2012. Filed under: Society | Tags: Jean Quan, Oakland protest, Occupy Oakland, OWS |
Saturday nights aren’t what they used to be around here. I spent part of this past Saturday night staring in mute fascination at the live online coverage of the Occupy Oakland actions. Bay Area TV station KGO, an ABC affiliate, featured a live aerial feed of the events in downtown Oakland. No sound, just streaming video. [...]
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