30,000 Followers

So I've opened up my Twitter account so that anybody can follow me without my permission.  And suddenly, I'm seeing people with 18,000 or 30,000 followers. THIRTY THOUSAND. What does this mean? Sucker that I am, I clicked on some random pitch about getting a zillion followers in ten minutes (can anyone say "scam" of …

Tweets, Posts, and Status Updates

TweetDeck is a metaphor. If you haven't seen it, TweetDeck is an app that lets you track Twitter tweets and Facebook Updates in real time.   As it spreads out across several columns, breaking tweets into various categories, I can't help but think about the vast amounts of information coming at us.  Thoughts dropping into our …

Questions About Possibility

Yesterday, I came across a web site called <100K Project, an awareness raising enterprise by Scott Walters dedicated to “bring(ing) the arts back home” to small and rural communities with populations under 100,000."  One of the posts I spent some time with is titled "On the Possibility of Art."  An interesting move Walters makes is …

A Lady, a Heart, and a Kingdom

Solomon.  What a guy.  Superb lineage, a couple of in-your-face visits from the Almighty, one of which got him everything a man could dream of--literally, and a personal palace twice as big as the Temple.  Traditional thinking has him author of a piece of pretty sensual love poetry, over 3000 proverbs and 1000 songs, a …