A Google+ Alternative
The reality is finally sinking in: the demise of Google+ is imminent. Google+ will be shut down on April 2, 2019. Not everyone is mourning the loss, but for some, it’s a loss of community and the loss of an alternative or adjunct to Facebook. Though the press pounced on Google’s erasure of its “Don’t […]
Blogging & Social Media Tips, On Writing, Op-Ed
I Write Like…Me. Or do I?
My writing is identifiable – it is a redolent of Agatha Christie cookies, with a hint of Stephen King cake, and a healthy side Anne Rice. It is male, with a softer side. European female, maybe. Gender fluid, and ageless as time itself. That’s just a nice way of saying “AI is stupid.” Or maybe I really AM Stephen King…. How would YOU know?
algorithms, data science, featured, text analysis, writing as fingerprint
Blogging & Social Media Tips, Op-Ed
Repurposing Content or Self-Plagiarism?
You could call this post “mental compost,” wherein I throw the mental scraps about reusing content, self-plagiarism, and even propaganda into one post, shake it up, and hope it will fertilize new ideas.
content, copyright, featured, plagiarism, propaganda, repurpose, reuse
Blogging & Social Media Tips, Technical & How-to
How to Review a Blog #BlogCheckup
Now and then, it’s a good idea to step back from the blog and take an objective look at its design and usability. Better yet, ask a few friends to do it!
Here’s a checklist of things to look at when reviewing your blog, or a friend’s.
Blogging & Social Media Tips, Technical & How-to
Time to Change Your Passwords!
Just a few little reminders and housekeeping tips for my cyberfriends.
Blogging & Social Media Tips, Op-Ed, Technical & How-to
Words Have Meaning: Marketing vs Promoting vs Endorsing
We needn’t contort every word, twisting bad to mean good, and sick to mean amazing. This is just obfuscation and lunacy.
advertising, american marketing association, definitions, dictionary, ftc, marketing, promotion, words
Geek Out Down the Rabbit Hole #MyOldNemesisAlexa
I am resisting the urge to “metablog” as my friend Dave M once put it. Blogging about blogging. Writing about writing (or writers). Neither of those things are very interesting to anyone but bloggers and writers. It’s like all the backstage action at a theater: fun for the theater geeks, but not so much for the audience.
Telegram or Smoke Signals?
Since shuttering my Facebook accounts, including WhatsApp and Instagram, I have had time to explore alternatives. I’ve tried out Viber and Signal, but the only Messenger replacement I’m really enjoying – while trying to recruit more users to make it more fun and interesting – is Telegram. In terms of privacy and security, it’s much […]
Blogging & Social Media Tips, Technical & How-to
Using Social Media to Complain
Oh, the power of social media! Where once we might have been limited to telling 15 of our closest friends about our negative experience with BrandX, we now have the bully-pulpit of blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and a host of other channels by which to trash our least-favorite brand of the moment. Using social media to […]
Easily Resize Smartphone Images for Your Blog
Most of the images on this blog are mine. The few that I did not take, myself, are used with permission, licensed under creative commons, or public domain images. But I prefer to use my own, and as digital cameras and camera phones improve in quality and usability, they also produce much larger files that […]
compress images, farluner apps, mobile phones, resize smartphone images, smartphones
Blogging & Social Media Tips, Humor, Visual Perspectives
Scavenger Hunt May 2018 #Hunt4AFreshPerspective!
It’s SUMMER! It’s a LINK PARTY! Remember summer scavenger hunts, running through the streets with a list of things to bring back from the neighbors? Only kids can get by with that sort of thing, I think! It was fun while it lasted, but just try asking your neighbor for a cup of sugar, a […]
blogging challenge, featured, fun, hunt4afreshperspective, scavenger hunt
Blogging & Social Media Tips, Humor
President? Bah! I’ve Been Declared QUEEN!
Queen of the No-Niche Bloggers, that is! Rasheed Hooda, aka, “Mister Weirdo,” (never to be confused with Mr. Weirdo) – the man who, at age 62, walked from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Barbara, California, has handed me the virtual scepter in his post, “My Favorite No-Niche Bloggers.” I have apparently fallen down on the SEO, […]
Liebster Award
What is The Liebster Award? The Liebster Award is a tag which helps new bloggers get noticed, connect with each other and make relationships in the blogging community. I am not a “new blogger,” but I am, nonetheless, honored to be given the award by my friend Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D, E.A., whose middle initial […]
Blogging & Social Media Tips, Humor
Fresh Perspectives Delivered FREE to the First 100 Subscribers! Deal Ends at Midnight!
You’ve heard that “nothing good happens after midnight.” Are you willing to risk it? Are you ready to be plunged into email darkness, unable to read A Fresh Perspective without a cheap flashlight? Don’t worry, I have no plans – now or ever – to turn off the lights here or to charge you to […]
Serial Blogger
Once you’ve considered the pros and cons of blogging your NaNoWriMo novel – or, anything, really – and have decided to go for it, how do you tie all the chapters or related posts together on the blog? Building a table of contents is a bit tedious, and requires extensive cross-linking and updates to be really reader-friendly.
