Category: Ideas
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The Thing that I Love About My Blog
…..is what I learn about you who read it. Whenever I check the sites stats, it shows the search terms that people used to find my blog, and it also shows the sites that they might have come from. Here are some of my observations. 1. People are struggling with…
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My Tablet Experience
Most of the things that I do on the Internet, I can do on my tablet. I’ve quite enjoyed my tablet experience. There are a few things that I need my laptop for, and I’ll get on it when I need to do those things. I am so enjoying my…
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“Why Not” People
Have you ever had an idea – something that you were passionate about – and had the people around you just simply asked you “why?” These are the killjoys in your life – always shooting down your idea. And then there are those friends in your life that lovingly and…
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Sometimes Teachers Don’t Teach Anything New
…..they just take all the things that you already know and put it together for their students in a new way. Just because you’re not learning anything new doesn’t mean that your teacher is not teaching. Teachers are teaching because they’ve been able to put things together in ways that…
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Expelliopenus
After shopping tonight, we were headed back to the car and I took the key out and pointed it to the car and said “Expelliopenus,” and the door magically unlocked and my wife laughed and I thought I’d share that story in a run-on sentence kind of way. You should…
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Why You Keep Checking Twitter and Facebook
You keep checking becauase that means that someone needed you. You keep checking because we all need to be needed. It’s so much easier to communciate it with social media. When the phone goes off, we have to check to see what people need of us – becaus we need…
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Becoming a Fanboy Clouds Thinking
So it’s a random thought on my way to church today. Fanboy definition from the Interwebs: 1. A person who is completely loyal to a game or company reguardless of if they suck or not. 2. A pathetic insult often used by fanboys themselves to try and put down people…
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Digital Support
This is when we tell our friends over tweets, status updates, and texts that we are about to embark on some momentous occasion. The responses are typically prayers and words of encouragement. That’s the world we live in now. We tweet a feeling and our friends – our true friends…
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Unfollow Anxiety
I wasn’t aware of this, but you can track those that unfollow you on Twitter. http://useqwitter.com/ is a site that helps you track those that unfollow you – Thank you @Savasavasava. We had a quick tweet conversation about those that choose to unfollow us on Twitter. I have decided to…
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What Defines You
This week, I have read or heard that…. – Movies define you. – Buildings define you. – Clothes define you. – Your mobile phone defines you. – The type of car you drive defines you. – Your work defines you. – Your community defines you. – Your accomplishments define you.…
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Your Cyborg Identity
We are all cyborgs now – Sherry Turkle in Alone Together. “A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.” (Haraway, 1991 p149) We have all become a bit robotic in our lives. We can…
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Learning About People
You can always continue to learn about people. You will never get to the point where you just know so much about people that you will know all. You can also learn from the people that you’re learning from. Some people just do not care to know or learn about…
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