"...there is a crack, a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen
It's Work (really!)
I spend an inordinate amount of time in front of the computer screen. I call it 'Work' (with a capital WOO). It's easier that way because people tend to leave me alone. Just between you and moi it's not all 'Work-with-a-capital-W'. Sometimes, I call it 'Research' and at other times it's Professional Development. Thankfully, I now have added another whole galaxial layer I can blame for my absence from family weddings/christenings/reunions. It's called Social Media. It too is ascribed the special capital letter status.
Social Media now means I 'need to' stay in touch all the time with a virtual constituency or I risk becoming irrelevant or worse redundant (especially if you are a twitchety twitterer...the motto which seems to be 'you are only as good as your last twitter').
This all takes time. A lot of of it, a lotta, lotta time. I am lucky that it is part of my "Work". To many of my Baby Boomer cohorts, the mob I call Before Internet Mortals (BIMs), spending this much time in front of a flickering, lit screen is both incomprehensible and inconceivable. Children need to be fed/bathed/tamed, the dog bathed/walked/pooped, the hubby (all of the above).
I take their point. I am not advocating BIMs farm out their personal lives to do as I do. However, hurling out the proverbial baby-bathwater thingy means that the advantages of some social real treasures are being missed.
101 Introduction to Social Media
Digital Kulcha's mission is to not only humanise the web but to help make sense of what it all means to many mere mortals. Our 101 Introduction to Social Media series will start to appear in the coming weeks. We would also like to hear from you if there is a topic you would like us to cover in Plain English.
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Web Gems :: The Longest Solar Eclipse Photos
One of the greatest joys of spending so my time in front of a computer screen (for 'Work' purposes of course) is that occasionally I come across some rare, uplifting gems. This site is one such gem.
The longest solar eclipse of the century
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