By the Letter E

Something as trivial as a day at school should be just that, trivial. Things should be normal.  People should wave at friends in the halls, pass notes in class, learn, and look forward to recess and lunch.  As we have seen in the tragedies in the US and across the ocean in China, sometimes days aren't so trivial.  This was truly a slaughter of the innocents. Shortly after parents dropped off their children at Sandyhook Elementary in Connecticut, an emergency page/txt went out to parents with a generic message that there had been a shooting at a school.  Parents were advised not to pick up their children, which as any good parent can attest was largely ignored.     Within hours word had spread through the US that something horrible had occurred within a small close knit town called Newtown Connecticut.  First, word that there had been a shooting arrived in fuzzy preliminary news reports.  Then as the day progressed twitter feeds and faceboo...

With the advent of social media, well of the internet really people have become more inclined to share everything from photos, artwork news and everything in between.  Offline, people have been sharing artwork and utilizing other forms of communication for centuries in the form of books, and the spoken word in libraries and in museums.  Only now has the sharing images and other forms of media gone online and increased viewership by the millions world-wide. The term viral is as commonplace now in discussion of online content as it was back in the days of using the term to describe actual biological medical conditions.  Why?  How do things like art or media go viral? What is the difference between now and then? The answer to all of these questions is innovative technology and YOU. LOL CAT MEMES You and everyone else on the planet that has access to technological resources like the internet, computers and smart phones.  Even those that live in places with...

The past couple of weeks I have been indulging in my two passions.  Photography, and the internet.  I was sent an invitation by one of my Facebook friends to try Pinterest.  Not knowing much about the app except what I had read about on other sites my curiosity piqued.  So I accepted the invitation and moseyed on over to check it out.  I discovered that Pinterest is an online scrap book of different things that interest you and others on the web and all bundled into a pretty visual package.  It allows you to click on an image uploaded by another user or to load your own.  You can add a link to the images that directs to any webpage.  For example, yesterday I 'repinned' an image of Thai Coconut Curry soup, but clicking on the image itself took me back to the web page where I found the recipe.  Can't wait to try it.   So after exploring for the past couple of weeks I have found that I enjoy this site immensely.  It brings people and ...