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		<title>Save the world (and buy my car)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 16:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I got to cogitating the other day about blogs and blogging.  I realized this phenomenon has become more than just a passing fad.  I tried to distill the greatest benefits of blogging to mankind in my own mind.  I got it down to two lofty contributions.
First, blogging rights the wrongs in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I got to cogitating the other day about blogs and blogging.  I realized this phenomenon has become more than just a passing fad.  I tried to distill the greatest benefits of blogging to mankind in my own mind.  I got it down to two lofty contributions.</p>
<p>First, blogging rights the wrongs in society and makes the world a better, happier, and most of all, safer place.  By the miracle of technology, bloggers transform into enlightened gadflies to the refuse of society.  They make paparazzi look noble.  I mean, I know fer sure that I am so much better off seeing that Britney’s pet cocker spaniel “Longfellow” threw up on her Manolos.</p>
<p>The other key benefit to blogging is commerce.  Sites like eBay and Craigslist simply just don’t cut it &#8211; too big and impersonal.  Bloggers, on the other hand, build quaint havens away from the crowds.  Like little virtual corner stores of old.  They have the distinct advantage of knowing their audience and their most intimate desires.</p>
<p>For instance, I know many of you are car buffs and thus I have decided to present you with a unique opportunity to buy my car.<br />
<a href="http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s63/jdhoward/?action=view&amp;current=tellicocarforsale.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s63/jdhoward/tellicocarforsale.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br />
This ’65 Chevy is a beaut.<br />
<a href="http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s63/jdhoward/?action=view&amp;current=tellicocar2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s63/jdhoward/tellicocar2.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>I bought this screamer from a Grandmother who only used it to drive to church on Sundays so very low mileage.  She runs great!  And since windshield and windows are missing no need for air conditioning which just lowers your gas mileage anyway.  I’m listing her for $999 but am willing to negotiate.</p>
<p>So tell me, what do you see as the biggest benefits of blogging?</p>
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		<title>The ever shortening American attention span</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 00:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So is it just me or is everything there days getting chopped, diced and sliced into ever smaller chunks for our entertainment consumption?  Seems like we’ve become a nation of instant gratifiers &#8211; give it to me now, give it to me quick, gimme, gimme, gimme.
So back in the good ole days our forefathers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So is it just me or is everything there days getting chopped, diced and sliced into ever smaller chunks for our entertainment consumption?  Seems like we’ve become a nation of instant gratifiers &#8211; give it to me now, give it to me quick, gimme, gimme, gimme.<br />
So back in the good ole days our forefathers had single-moded recreation.  They listened to the radio.  Or watched TV.  Or bowled.  Nowadays our diversions stream at us deludgelike and we process information and experiences multi-modally.  Meaning, we blog, text, chat, watch Youtube and bowl all at the same time.  Television comes at us via snaky cables and ubiquitous satellites with a specific channel for every perversion.  The internet fractures our attention even further.   We get bombarded with messages like we’re in some sort of primordial multimedia soup.<br />
And back in the day we actually moved our schedule around to accommodate our entertainment and not vice versa.  Do you even remember back to the time when you waited for that specific time for your favorite TV show &#8211; you know, Thursday night Seinfeld’s.  These days with Tivo, YouTube, BitTorrent and internet TV, we watch what we want, when we want to view it.  And don’t get me started on lascivious content.<br />
Speaking of which, in the past, our recreation broke distinctly into either high brow or low brow.  You either sipped highballs and watched opera or chugged Pabst Blue Ribbon while ogling women wrestling in mud.<br />
<a href="http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s63/jdhoward/?action=view&amp;current=mudwrestling.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s63/jdhoward/mudwrestling.jpg" alt="Mud Wresting" border="0" /></a><br />
Nowadays the demarcation between high and low brow culture has been blurred.  Heck I think they’ve even got a mud wrestling opera cable channel now but I could be wrong.  At a minimum everything these days gets sexed up.  I mean sex sells, yes, but scantily couples hawking toilet paper …<br />
<a href="http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s63/jdhoward/?action=view&amp;current=sexsellstoiletpaper-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s63/jdhoward/sexsellstoiletpaper-1.jpg" alt="toilet paper" border="0" /></a><br />
and vacuums …<br />
<a href="http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s63/jdhoward/?action=view&amp;current=sexsellsvacuumcleaners.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s63/jdhoward/sexsellsvacuumcleaners.jpg" alt="vacuum cleaners" border="0" /></a><br />
Jeesh.<br />
And then there’s blogging.  Who has time to read – God forbid – a novel.  I mean I break out in hives when I see the polysyllabic length of a USA today newspaper.  Give me short snippets of wisdom, entertaining nuggets of laughter, in short, give me blogging or give me a lobotomy.<br />
I figure in time our collective attention spans will shorten to that of the common goldfish &#8211; which is to say, 3 seconds.<br />
Not what were you saying …</p>
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