In a digital world were words are less important than the ideas they convey, the craft of writing is changing. Hell, it has changed, drastically. I’m not saying that all copywriters are becoming keyboard mutes, I’m saying that snippets and texts and tweets and posts have replaced what would have been considered writing just five [...]
The new high-end LED/LCD, 3D HDTV’s are ruining my old school eyes, but not in a painful way. It is delightfully devious retina ruination, an eye-opening bite of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, like in Genesis. Instead of a snake, however, you are tempted by a remote – four of them, [...]
With every click online, we’re giving a piece of ourselves away. This sentence just cost me a little chunk of my humanity. The next few will bleed me further. It is happening to you too. Soon we’ll only be measured by our digital profiles, our search records baking in un-erasable cookies forever. Google will own [...]
Jeff Johnson sent me a website I have not seen before. He is like a Google bot when it comes to rooting around the Web. It was featured on Holy Kow, Guy Kawasaki’s content aggregation site. The site purports to analyze your writing style and tell you what author you write like. It is exploding [...]
The new graphite-colored Kindle DX has a bigger screen (9.7 inches), 50% better contrast, 4GB of storage, 3G wireless network, a battery that goes a week between charges and holds up to 3,500 books. Sure, it costs $359.00, but let’s think about those 3,500 books for a few sentences.
Almost 4,000 feet above sea level: you can smell the horsepower from up here on its way from Michigan. A runway stretches across the top of this mountain in Bath County, Virginia. The road that ends at the door of a small terminal is a snake-crooked trip, hair-pinned into kinks that would give an 18-wheeler heartburn. [...]
Growing up fifty miles from Monroeville, Alabama means I have crossed paths with the reclusive Harper Lee many times. I never met her, mind you. I know her from her famous book, a biography she refused to cooperate with and from her home town, We have traveled the same roads for years. Harper Lee and [...]
There are a lot of new back-to-basics cookbooks being published these days with the Slow Food movement and it’s first through third cousins roaming the aisles at bookstores.
Harvard’s Institute of Politics has released a poll indicating that young people are worried about the future – and not so positive about their chances in it. The pessimism ranges from financial concerns to doubts about their ability to afford health care.
Sail Cat Road, the sequel to No Good End, continues below. It is being posted tweet-by-tweet daily on Twitter (http://twitter.com/ttaylordude). I will post each chapter here on Ning (in chronological order). For the prequel, please go to: www.nogoodend.com. Each chapter is posted at: http://sailcatroad.posterous.com and at http://terrytaylor.posterous.com Mikal Ritko traveled alone. Things had gotten out of hand. [...]
(Warning: Contains rock lyrics from 40 years ago) Some music goes beyond the sound that comes out of your speakers. From time to time, these sounds define a cultural or political movement. In a few cases, they become the soundtrack for a generation. Neil Young wailing, “four dead in Ohio,” still conjures memories of a [...]
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue came out a week or so ago. I was buried in work the day it curled up in my mailbox. My wife and daughter grabbed it before I could see any painted body parts. They seem to enjoy it more than I do, albeit they use it for a different [...]
We’ve all done it. Filled the little square on Facebook with vacuous gibberish, then hit “comment.” I won’t use any examples here, go to your Facebook page and you will see for yourself. No shortage of mindless ramblings that serve the basic intent of saying, “Hey, I’m alive. I made it through this crummy day. [...]
We all have to be something. Aries, Tarus, Winnebago. I am a Sagittarius. I have never put even a remote amount of faith into such things. I’ve always figured our fortune was guided or blunted by our own actions, not the stars. In the last year, however, I have started regularly reading my horoscope in [...]
The Super Bowl is Sunday. It is a big deal for football, entertainment, advertising and Saints fans. If you enjoy the NFL, thank Steve Sabol. His stories created it. Sabol is 67 now. He became famous by turning football into art (according to Joe Posnanski in Sports Illustrated his week). It is a great story [...]