revolution

From the Tiny Revolution: Now Small is Powerful

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From the Magpie Girl site, from Rachelle Mee-Chapman,  Small is Beautiful/ Small is Powerful Blogger Manifesto (The original site is gone but I found a link via the Web Archive). I used to think that small was beautiful. Rather like a delicate rosebud in a cut-crystal vase. Or a butterfly wing. Now I know differently. Now … Read more

Victoria Day: The Holiday Becoming Lost in Time

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Victoria Day celebrates Queen Victoria’s birthday. This year it will be on May 21st. There will be people who don’t know who Queen Victoria (1819 – 1901) is. Maybe they know her for the century she influenced with Victorian fashion and protocol. They aren’t likely to know much about Queen Victoria herself. Some won’t even … Read more

Five Manifestos for Life | Brain Pickings

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Five Manifestos for Life | Brain Pickings. Five Manifestos for Life by Kirstin Butler How a numbered list can start a personal revolution. Some days everyone needs a little extra encouragement. The words or lines or colors don’t want to come, or worse, we don’t even want to sit down to create. That’s when we turn to these … Read more

For the Letter Writers

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I’ve written about letter writing before: Letter Writing and Letter Writing Fading to Black. But, it’s time for another look, to see what’s new, what I missed and just for the sake of the letter writers themselves (they who need to be appreciated). “Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.” … Read more

Hyperlocal, What is It?

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I’ve seen the term hyperlocal come up three times lately. I decided to spend some time to find out what it is exactly and how it is being used. Of course, Wikipedia comes up first in the results I get from Google. : Hyperlocal – refers to the emergent ecology of data (including textual content), … Read more