One of the most notable things about the current crisis is how easy it has become to use words such as crisis, pandemic, unprecedented… And another is how easy it is to speak of thousands of deaths as if each one of those statistics didn’t refer to a unique and cherished individual.
For me, another of the most notable aspects of the last few months is how much contact I’ve had with people all through this “social distancing” time.
Continue reading “far and near”
Just hanging around, posting fairly regular updates but making no particular effort to get noticed, I find I now have 501 blog followers.
Thank you, not only to those who follow, but also to those who just drop by occasionally to read, comment or enjoy the view.
This isn’t the busiest blog in the world, and I don’t suppose it will ever have a huge audience, but WordPress send me notifications of new followers and likes, and it’s always nice to think that a post has appealed to readers, even if it’s impossible to know exactly why.
I check the stats page to see if I can find out a little more about who is reading and clicking, but this often poses more questions than it answers. I happened to look just after midnight the other night, just after the numbers had been reset, and this is what I found:
I have a profile on the LinkedIn system and regularly receive updates on what changes have been made on the profiles of people within my network. This morning I found this in my inbox (the two lines refer to the same person):
Continue reading “professional – and other – skills”
What’s the good of having a personal blog if you can’t use it occasionally for a personal rant? Today is one of those occasions.
Yesterday the subject line of an email urged me to PASS IT ON; the content of the message was simply:
VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP IS AN OXYMORON
I loathe the impersonalisation of communications on the web. If someone wants to tell me that they’d like to keep in closer touch, I’d like to see something in the message indicating that it was intended for me personally.
Continue reading “anti-social networking”
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