Category — Microblog Mondays

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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Today is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, so I likely won’t be online.  I wrote this ahead of time so everyone else could meet up because I love this weekly gathering so much.  But I also think that it’s important that I go offline and mark the day.

I don’t know why going offline feels like the right thing to do.  I mean, you’re supposed to gather with others as you reflect on your past year and mentally plan your new year.  I gather with people offline, but I also gather with people over the phone and online.  I’m not sure why gathering in one way feels right and another way feels wrong.

Do you feel like there are times when you are supposed to be offline; where going online somehow feels wrong?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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Can we pause for a moment and discuss the website FakeaBaby.com?  It was in an article about the Michigan girl who faked her triplet pregnancy for 9 months.

There isn’t much to say about the girl, but the website?  Who created this website?  I am aware that you can find just about anything on the Web, but all of these sites are created by human beings.  Who are these human beings?

Do you ever wonder that?  I think about it all the time when I’m walking through the grocery store.  These strangers I’m seeing around me, one of them could be a troll online or a creator of a hurtful site or a seller of items that allow people to commit fraud.  All these people who create these sites or leave hurtful comments online… they all live somewhere.  They all have families or friends.  They could be standing right next to you at some point today.

Do you think about those people?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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Josh and I got tickets to a Fathom Event.  Sometimes plays or operas or ballets livecast a single performance, and you can go to the local movie theater to see it.  The tickets are slightly more expensive than the average movie ticket, and because it’s livecast, you’re held to a single showing.

When I tell people that we’re going to see a play in the theater, the response is mixed.  Some think it’s a great way to make theater accessible and others think that it’s not worth seeing if you can’t be in-person.

Me?  I’m excited to see the play.  Even if we lived in London, we couldn’t have afforded the tickets.  Plus, I’ll have a great view as if I’m sitting in the front row (whereas in reality, I would have been in the back of the theater), able to see the actors’ expressions.  Seeing a theater performance is wonderful, but this is, too.

What about you?  Would you go see a live theater performance on a screen in a movie theater?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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Provided I didn’t number #MicroblogMondays wrong (and that is a definitely possibility considering the Roundup is off), this is the final post of the “year.”  Next week, the project officially reaches its one year birthday.

I’m a fan of sticking with things because then you get moments like today where you can look back on how things have turned out.  We took back our blogs; at least, a bunch of people have.  There are a couple dozen people who add themselves to the link-up list.  It’s not always the exact same people, but there is a core group.  So it’s sort of nice; we have the people who have started posting at least once a week again, and other people who post at least a bit more often.

So I thought it would be fun if people looked back at their posts if they participated at all this year and leave a link to their favourite post in the comment section below.  And if you haven’t participated, let this post kick you in the ass to take back your blog.

Really, they shrivel up without your presence.  You don’t need to post daily, but take it back one a week.  Something brief.  Something you would have posted on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram or anywhere else on the web.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I was listening to a recent Nerdist episode with Andy Samberg, and they touched on being tried in the Twitter court of public opinion.  Even as a sketch is unfolding, people are tweeting their opinions of it, and it influences the performer’s… self-esteem?  Work?  Future projects?  All of the above?

Who wants to be creative when creativity can bite you in the ass?

Anyway, Samberg admits that when he hosted SNL, he simply didn’t go online for a bit.  And Chris counters that doing so (shutting out that court of public opinion) shows how much we do have control over how we perceive our reality.  We can tune other people out simply by not going online.

Easier said than done.

If you knew there was a post written about you, could you stop yourself from reading it?  What if you knew for a fact that it was negative?  What if you knew for a fact that it was positive?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored posts.