When anything gets popular, rest assured there will be copycats. Sometimes you’ll be surprised and someone will be innovative and add to what was there in an ingenious way, but most often it just becomes clutter. Some sites, like Naymz, have actually been around for awhile. Seems a lot of folks, myself included at first,…
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Feb
13
One Word, Give Or Take
It’s funny how the presence (or absence) of a word can change meaning completely. Simple examples include Mobile One vs. mobile phone, Moby Dick vs Moby (the musician), and James Dean vs Jimmy Dean. A more interesting example was seen while driving between appointments last week. A building with the fluorescent title “Piano & Organ…
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Feb
06
Reformatting Expression
Lately I’ve been giving thought to either creating a new blog or doing some serious pruning to this one. I’ve encountered two main challenges with Dreaming In Abstract in its current format, namely: It’s too general and doesn’t pull enough traffic from any specific genre. I feel some degree of filtering here. The content is…
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Jan
30
Becoming Too Familiar
Earlier today I saw some Facebook posts from the page of a blog I read regularly, but found myself shrugging at it with the assertion, “Eh, I’ll read it later.” This was a blogger that I’d initially been really excited about, and jumped on the chance to read each new post that came out. I…
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