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I was talking to  someone recently who didn’t understand blog from Twitter from Facebook and here are my explanations:

Facebook – like slam books from when I was in grade school. We all carried spiral back composition books our friends wrote in spontaneously.

Twitter – like fence talk, you tell your neighbor you heard Sam’s dog is loose again, and then he tells his neighbor and so on and so on.

Blog – as a journalist you could say I blog because it is close to what I do for a living – investigative reporting, but blogging is also autobiographical so it is a form of nonfiction creative writing, but most importantly blogging is a realm of reality manifest. To wit, a quote from Louise Nevelson “What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.” [I lost my favorite buttons one Mardi Gras during the 80s that said DON’T FUCK WITH MY REALITY.]

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