Wednesday, November 12, 2008

The Politics of Posting


How much can you say on a personal blog, without leaving yourself open to unwarranted intrusion?

I've taken all the kids pictures from my Facebook site, and asked that the yearly school calendar not include their names, but does that protect them?

If I blog about issues and a potential employer/headhunter reads it, does it sway their opinion unjustly since it is really private (but foolishly in the public domain)?

There are so many social networking sites now, from those masquerading as Jobs Boards like LinkedIn to the niche-specific ones like Matador (Travel) or Last.fm (Music) plus the area-specific sites like YoPoCo or CostaBlancaConnect - and our lives are on display here like never before.

Where is it leading? Personal advertising boards outside our houses? We already have ad's on our cars, our T-shirts, our mobile phones and laptops and bombarding us from every website and publication. What's next? Personalized signs on gravestones with ad space to rent?

I fancy a rotating sign on mine that can be logged into as my descendants wish, to read my words of wisdom, left to flicker for posterity. And he would like fairy lights on his so that a visit to the grave site need not be gloom and doom for the kids after he's gone.

What do YOU want?

Monday, October 06, 2008

High Speed

I don't have time to browse the internet, eat cake, put the washing out, put the washing in, shake it all about...since I am simultaneously writing Chapter 51 of the novel, re-writing the synopsis of the filmscript, sketching blog ideas for other peoples forum blogs, re-jigging articles for travel sites, and waiting on some other work to be emailed to me. I'm like a high-speed vehicle, skimming over the keyboard in gleaming chrome and metallic paint (fingernails).

But if it doesn't come in soon its gonna drop off my to-do-list as I've just discovered that the girls are off school this Thurs and Fri.

Hmm, this means I'd better break out the Barbies. Time for a terrace-top fashion contest, methinks. check back later for pics.

Friday, August 01, 2008

Forest Love - ooo get down to the forest today....

It seems as if Greenpeace want us to get down and dirty in the bush, which I, for one, am all for, however, I imagine that they'll draw the line at downright pornography (although perhaps their video editors will have a happy half hour).

So be creative and send in photos of loving, snogging, tongueing, kissing, face-hugging type action in glorious green foliage, under swaying trees or right in the growing heart of your local park to help put the pressure on the EU to stop illegal logging and the sale of illegal timber from the rainforests - in the Congo, this is even taking place within so-called protected National Parks.

Read more: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/conning-congo-forests300708

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Links

orange gas bottles
coin-sized interior pain
pawprints on window
soaring strings
condensation under toast
small print
a noise like whispered moving feet
the corner of the wrapping paper caught in a drawer
someone elses letter
escapee washing
determination
longevity
doubt