The first thing anyone wants to know when they learn a language is usually the bad words. It is important if you want to understand people at their worst. For example, the refs for the World Cup match between England and the USofA did their part to brush up on how the players would be taunting each other. But as practical as learning the swear words has become, we still have our limits as to when we can use them. It’s just that those limits are fading fast.
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The musings of someone who picked it up on the streets.
Innovation
It was just an innocent remark over a cup of coffee. “Erik, I always thought you were some kind of rebel.” I threw back my head and laughed in a compulsively rude fit of the moment. If I’m what passes for a “rebel”, this world is really in trouble (to put it the polite way).
Barataria has always been a big experiment – an attempt to prove that a few of the hard written rules about blogging were simply wrong. Longer pieces with some substance have an audience, even when presented in stark black and white. Pictures and multi-media aren’t necessary to sell them. It is not essential to be narrowly focused on one subject or area of expertise. Thank you all for proving that there is an audience for my humble work.
Ode to Twitter
The day before Memorial Day weekend is one of the quietest in Saint Paul and all over the USofA. So I thought I’d offer a little diversion instead of something thoughtful. I hope you enjoy it!
With the bright summer dawn when I roll up and yawn,
The first thing I do is to switch the news on.
Not the teevee with banter among heads full of chatter
I’d rather log in and see what my friends figure matters.
With coffee and twtter the morning’s complete
With a tweet, retweet, and repeat.
Total Marketing
I think it’s fair to say that the world of social media has a tendency to drown most people in the details. Conversations with friend and clients on the topic are often about the latest tools and trends rather than how they are fit together in one coherent strategy. I think this is happening because, for all the chatter, there is still not a coherent vision as to where it all might be going. I’d like to take a stab as to how this might all work out, at least when it comes to selling products in a new kind of economy.
On (CowPuckey)
Is it really a lie when the person making an outrageous statement doesn’t actually care if it’s the truth or not? It’s such a common situation that statements somewhere outside of lies and truth have gotten not only their own name, which I’ll abbreviate “BS”, but they are spawning a line of academic thought and papers. It’s a big part of our culture and our politics, but what can we do about it?
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