Tag: Instagram

• Life’s too short to read books you don’t like

  Back in June, I took an early morning walk with my 1 year old and had the sudden inspiration to whip up an Instagram Reel on a topic I care deeply about: telling people that it’s OK to stop reading books you don’t like: This might sound familiar because I’ve done a similar one before.…

  Aug 7, 2024

  # books, Instagram, librarians, reading, social media

• The AI-powered typewriter

  First published as an Instagram Reel just for funsies. Have you heard about the latest hot gadget? It’s called a “typewriter” and it has all the fancy, cutting-edge features you need: High-res screen — the writing surface looks just like real paper because that’s what it is Strong security — your writing is encrypted and…

  Mar 25, 2024

  # Instagram, technology, typewriters

• Under the bookfluence

  Call me Influencer. (just kidding, please don’t) I don’t use TikTok but I’ve started making Instagram Reels for work and have grown to appreciate the format, however much of a time-suck it can be. There’s lots of creative, funny, and relatable ones out there if you can navigate the ever-changing algorithm. I figured the easiest…

  Feb 10, 2022

  # books, Instagram, reading, social media

• How I’ve made my social media better

  Here are some browser extensions and tools I’ve been using to make my experience on the Big Three social networks better: Twitter Since 2012 I’ve been using the extension Fix Twitter [update: now defunct] to swap the right and left columns to put the feed back on the left, as it was pre-2012. Mostly cosmetic,…

  Mar 23, 2018

  # Facebook, Instagram, social media, technology, Twitter

• The Millennials Will Be All Right

  I finally read Joel Stein’s Time magazine piece on the Millennial Generation, called “The Me Me Me Generation.” For the record, unlike some of my Millennial cohorts I hate “selfies” (the term and the thing it describes), I don’t feel entitled to a great job right out of school, and I don’t sleep next to…

  May 21, 2013

  # America, Baby Boomers, Facebook, Instagram, Joel Stein, Millennials, technology, time, Twitter

• Pruning the Rosebushes: What Not to Share

  There’s a scene in Saving Private Ryan when Matt Damon’s Pvt. Ryan and Tom Hanks’ Capt. Miller sit and chat, waiting for the impending German offensive to hit their French town. Ryan’s three brothers had recently died and he can’t remember their faces. The Captain tells him to think of a specific context, something they’d shared…

  Jan 3, 2012

  # attention, Facebook, Instagram, life, Matt Damon, Saving Private Ryan, social media, technology, Tom Hanks, Twitter, WordPress