Queens of Twittering may send up to 1000, one hundred forty word, messages a day, and so far there is no direct financial profit in it. This Vanity Fair article by Vanessa Grigoriadis is about the way some people embrace new technology and hire GHOST TWITTERers to keep their fans updated with the minutia of their lives.
I personally have no time to Twitter and am not that interested in the minutia nor do I imagine anyone at all interested in mine. Really impactful personal "sharing" dates in coffee houses are rare to come by as well. Seems to me the best use of Twitter-like reportage is for purposes of MARKETING.
I believe that some people DO NOT KNOW THEY EXIST IF THEY ARE NOT CONSTANT WITH THE REPORTAGE.
Have you experienced meeting someone for coffee and feeling like you may as well come alone since the person across the table is too busy with their cell phone - texting - to pay much attention?
Christine Trzyna
1/28/10
J.D. SALINGER CATCHER IN THE RYE AUTHOR PASSES
Breaking Yahoo news... the author of the book that was taught at Eastern Prep schools and became famous as an inspiration for the murder of John Lennon passes away.
1/19/10
MY THOUGHTS ABOUT CHRISTINE TRZYNA - WRITERLY LIFE - THE BLOG
Recently, I got a couple of comments that advised me that my blog was getting better all the time - funnier - and maybe more interesting. I was also complimented on the high quality of the blog - that reading it is a pleasure.
But I have mixed feelings about writing for approval and the truth is, I'm really not. Though I do hope my writerly blog is of support to other writers, and am a very bookish person who admires many other writers for what they have written, this blog is for me first. I write it as if no one is reading it! I don't see that my goal in writing my blog is to make people like me, approve of me, or my humor or my attitude, though it's nice if they do. (I need support too!) That's why I haven't installed an ego-tickling ticker to count hits. Now Google rates by hits, while Yahoo has apparently dumped me because I don't have an impressive number of links!
This blog is my diary. I know the stories behind certain posts that I would never tell. But when I personally click click click to an old post, I remember. For the reader I would say this is a tease. Like Sally Rand, I'm keeping a lot of parts covered, on purpose. That's my pleasure.
And as far as being funnier, I do have a sense of humor and it's one that is not always appreciated, so when someone gets me? OK! That's an ego stroke akin to a full body massage with exotic oil, OK.
But deeper to the accupressure point, I am just so glad I have this blog as well as WES BRYAN-MY LIFE IN MUSIC to express myself with, because right now the time I have to write, the time I have to even think my own thoughts, or go without interruption, is severely limited. I fantacize about going somewhere - escaping to a place - where I cannot see or speak to another human being for weeks if I choose (OK I'll take Wes' calls!) and WRITE WRITE WRITE!
I also KNOW that the time is coming when I'll be writing a book which will take all my efforts NOT TO CARE WHAT MY READERS THINK OF ME. In fact I will consider it my duty to piss off my readers; when it comes to a full range of human emotions I have them. And I won't want anyone to tell me not to write it, or how to write it, or that what I need to say need not be said. (As a hint, read the holocaust poem below!) It's going to take true fearlessness to get my truth down, so yes, my readers will cry.
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OK thanks D, yes hopefully laugh too!
But I have mixed feelings about writing for approval and the truth is, I'm really not. Though I do hope my writerly blog is of support to other writers, and am a very bookish person who admires many other writers for what they have written, this blog is for me first. I write it as if no one is reading it! I don't see that my goal in writing my blog is to make people like me, approve of me, or my humor or my attitude, though it's nice if they do. (I need support too!) That's why I haven't installed an ego-tickling ticker to count hits. Now Google rates by hits, while Yahoo has apparently dumped me because I don't have an impressive number of links!
This blog is my diary. I know the stories behind certain posts that I would never tell. But when I personally click click click to an old post, I remember. For the reader I would say this is a tease. Like Sally Rand, I'm keeping a lot of parts covered, on purpose. That's my pleasure.
And as far as being funnier, I do have a sense of humor and it's one that is not always appreciated, so when someone gets me? OK! That's an ego stroke akin to a full body massage with exotic oil, OK.
But deeper to the accupressure point, I am just so glad I have this blog as well as WES BRYAN-MY LIFE IN MUSIC to express myself with, because right now the time I have to write, the time I have to even think my own thoughts, or go without interruption, is severely limited. I fantacize about going somewhere - escaping to a place - where I cannot see or speak to another human being for weeks if I choose (OK I'll take Wes' calls!) and WRITE WRITE WRITE!
I also KNOW that the time is coming when I'll be writing a book which will take all my efforts NOT TO CARE WHAT MY READERS THINK OF ME. In fact I will consider it my duty to piss off my readers; when it comes to a full range of human emotions I have them. And I won't want anyone to tell me not to write it, or how to write it, or that what I need to say need not be said. (As a hint, read the holocaust poem below!) It's going to take true fearlessness to get my truth down, so yes, my readers will cry.
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OK thanks D, yes hopefully laugh too!
1/12/10
IF NOT FOR HER SAVING ANNE FRANKS DIARY... WE WOULD NEVER HAVE READ IT! 100 YEAR OLD MIEP GIES PASSES AWAY !
Link now to this Yahoo news story about Miep Gies, who put the papers that were Anne Frank's diary away in her desk... Anne's diary was required reading when I was in the fifth grade. I'm not sure we understood the Holocaust, focusing instead on Anne falling in love with Peter... There were many heroic individuals who risked their own lives to hide other people in Poland, Germany, the occupied countries during the Nazi terror.
1/8/10
CARLOS CASTANEDA quote
“Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior’s indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.” Carlos Castaneda
1/6/10
HOLA MAGAZINE (A SECRET PLEASURE) I'M MOSTLY INTERESTED IN THE ROYAL SITUATION IN MONACO
A few months ago, I began "reading," Hola! Magazine, which is available at Los Angeles Public Library branches with high Spanish-speaking populations.
Truth is I can't read it but I can look at the pictures and glean the content through some word identification.
What is fascinating me about the LATIN MENTALITY OF HOLA, is that aristocrats and royals are featured celebrities just as they were in Europe for hundreds of years. So, if you are interested in what the Spanish Royal family is up to or the titans of industry, this is the magazine for you.
I'm mostly interested in the Royal Situation in Monaco. The Royal Family of Monaco is one of the worlds most publicized dysfunctional families in the world and the whole question about the line of succession because Prince Albert has no legal marriage or legitimate offspring (rumors abound about a California love child...) has been intriguing to me. Maybe it's that Princess Grace-American angle. Maybe the Princess Caroline-Feminist - a Woman Should Be In Charge- angle.
Albert has taken over where his father left off and Caroline's first son, a beautiful young man in his prime, is the heir next. Caroline's husband Ernst seems to have been missing in action from some recent ceremonies and Caroline has a dreadful stoic look on her face.
A recent article about the Royal Situation in Monaco revealed something else about Hola! Magazine. Apparently, they do not airbrush like similar publications in the Northern Hemisphere do, revealing every wrinkle (Caroline very very wrinkly, even shockingly so, after seeing images of her that have been fixed...), varicose vein, and so on. And, couples that feature both the man and the woman in swim-gear with excess fat are not cropped to be more attractive. Maybe it's the Reality TV influence.
Truth is I can't read it but I can look at the pictures and glean the content through some word identification.
What is fascinating me about the LATIN MENTALITY OF HOLA, is that aristocrats and royals are featured celebrities just as they were in Europe for hundreds of years. So, if you are interested in what the Spanish Royal family is up to or the titans of industry, this is the magazine for you.
I'm mostly interested in the Royal Situation in Monaco. The Royal Family of Monaco is one of the worlds most publicized dysfunctional families in the world and the whole question about the line of succession because Prince Albert has no legal marriage or legitimate offspring (rumors abound about a California love child...) has been intriguing to me. Maybe it's that Princess Grace-American angle. Maybe the Princess Caroline-Feminist - a Woman Should Be In Charge- angle.
Albert has taken over where his father left off and Caroline's first son, a beautiful young man in his prime, is the heir next. Caroline's husband Ernst seems to have been missing in action from some recent ceremonies and Caroline has a dreadful stoic look on her face.
A recent article about the Royal Situation in Monaco revealed something else about Hola! Magazine. Apparently, they do not airbrush like similar publications in the Northern Hemisphere do, revealing every wrinkle (Caroline very very wrinkly, even shockingly so, after seeing images of her that have been fixed...), varicose vein, and so on. And, couples that feature both the man and the woman in swim-gear with excess fat are not cropped to be more attractive. Maybe it's the Reality TV influence.
1/2/10
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