Urban Semiotictag:urbansemiotic.com,2008-08-27://22010-03-10T14:10:40ZCutting the City CoreMovable Type Pro 5.01Pringles: Tasty Treat or Salmonella Slider?tag:urbansemiotic.com,2010://2.40672010-03-10T14:10:12Z2010-03-10T14:10:40ZGrowing up, I never really ate many potato chips and they were rarely purchased for the home. My mother always said that they were unhealthy and led to weight problems -- and had no nutritional value of their own. With...Gordon Davidescuhttp://bolesblogs.com
weight problems -- and had no nutritional value of their own. With Proctor & Gamble issuing a limited recall on some Pringles because of possible Salmonella poisoning, we have to ask ourselves how far we are willing to go to enjoy a tasty treat.
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tainted with Salmonella a few years ago, and Healthy Valley Granola bars were also recalled for the same reason.
I believe that the problem extends far beyond simply figuring out how to eliminate salmonella in our snack foods. We need to completely rethink what it means to eat food in general.
We know that it cannot be a coincidence that the average weight of people in the United States has spiraled upwards in the last fifty years. Michael Pollan has come up with some excellent suggestions for eating.
While it is true that there have been cases of salmonella that have been found in vegetables -- here, too, it seems to have come from a packaged product rather than a vegetable purchased at a farmer's market.
While I am on the subject of farmer's markets, I would like you to take any opportunity you have to buy your groceries at farmer's markets. Farmer's markets are overflowing with real food that should be the sort that you put on your plate, not pre-packaged overproduced highly marketed non-nutritious garbage.
When you pay more for the packaging and advertising of your food than the food itself, you know there is a problem -- one that sometimes has lethal repercussions.]]>
Obama and the One False Yeartag:urbansemiotic.com,2010://2.40562010-03-03T13:38:21Z2010-03-03T13:38:43ZDavid W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
blaming their predecessor" for the failures of the country and then, after a 12-month grace period, they "own" everything that's on fire around them? That's a ridiculous notion based in fantasy and not hardened by reality.
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If we could undo the damage done over the last eight years of the previous administration in 12-months, then I would be on board with the "one year, then you own it" mandate, but reality suggests it will take many years -- generations, perhaps -- to fix the recklessness done under the Dubya regime.
For all 12 years of his presidency, rightly FDR blamed Herbert Hoover for all the woes of the country as he worked to fix them, and any reasonable and logical person precisely understood FDR's argument.
We are many years removed from the wholesale healing that needs to be done in the wake of the Bush era. We have to fix the economy, the schools, the military, our healthcare and social services.
Obama has at least four years of emergency surgery to do before he can
even begin to address the reasons he was elected in the first place --
and that is our fault, not his, for giving him such a fallow path to
follow -- and that's why Obama's second term, we hope, will start to be
the meeting of the man we knew and loved and originally elected to set
us back on the right road to humanity and prosperity. ]]>
The Olympics: Men of Summer, Women of Wintertag:urbansemiotic.com,2010://2.40402010-02-24T13:27:51Z2010-02-24T13:27:22ZDavid W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
intended for male fans, while the Winter Olympics are intended for female fans.
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The Summer Olympics, he said, are all about sweat and brute strength and
lifting weights and running and jumping: Typical male activity. The
television broadcasts reflect high levels of testosterone in the hosting
and announcing of events.
The Winter Olympics, he argued, are
centered on artistry, beauty, dancing, skating and celebrating the
female form in physical space -- all those concerns are the
stereotypical domain of interest for most females. The television
studios are warm, cozy, lighted by fireplaces and the announcers are
dressed in warm, fuzzy, layers.
I was stopped a bit by his
argument as I checked my gender equity card and then I wondered if he
was on to something.
What's your take? Are the Olympics created
for an audience based on gender? Or are most women just as big a fan
of the Decathlon as most men are of Ice Dancing? ]]>
Giving Up Your Lifetag:urbansemiotic.com,2010://2.40262010-02-17T13:21:53Z2010-02-17T13:20:54ZDavid W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
one thing only, what would you choose? Your friends? Your parents? Your children? Your country? How do we, as a logical society, decide how someone should give up their life?
The Inuit routinely practiced Senilicide and Invalidcide to rid the tribe of the sick and the old in order to protect the societal core and to preserve provisions.
Which society has it right? Should the young die to protect the established? Or should the elderly get out of the way to make room for their replacements? ]]>
Romanian Distress Call from Kew Gardenstag:urbansemiotic.com,2010://2.40122010-02-10T15:19:13Z2010-02-10T15:19:29ZA little over two years ago, I wrote an article about mobile phone usage in public called Banning Cell Phones in Public Places. I was, and still am, of the opinion that most public spaces are not the place to...Gordon Davidescuhttp://bolesblogs.com
Banning Cell Phones in Public Places. I was, and still am, of the opinion that most public spaces are not the place to whip out your mobile phone and start loudly talking about your personal life, to the detriment of the people around you -- particularly when the people can do nothing to get away from you, such as on a bus. Last night, I discovered in horror how easy it is to become that person on the phone.
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I called from the train and explained my position to her in Romanian -- that is our clearest shared language. I thought using Romanian in public would be the most polite thing to do since most people in the United States do not speak Romanian, and those around me would be better able to ignore me because they would not understand what I was saying. That turned out to be the second mistake I made. A lot of people who live in Queens, New York speak Romanian -- so many, in fact, that there is a Romanian language news program that comes from Queens.
As it became clear she was still not getting what I was trying to say, I started to get a little upset. I got a funny look from someone to my right -- someone who had a few very obvious Romanian features, now that I think about it. I should have remembered there is no such thing as coincidence and just said good-bye and hung up the phone. I didn't. I continued the conversation.
A minute or so later, I got another nasty look -- this time from someone else on the train. They said, "Excuse me!" with the implication that I was speaking too loudly. I was crestfallen. I picked up my bags and walked as far away from them as I could and told my mother that I had to go and that I would call her back.
A few minutes later, I got off the train and called her back and promptly told her I was never talking on the phone on the train again. It was a humiliating and humbling experience yet I have learned a lot from it -- namely, that I need to stop thinking bad things about people who speak on their mobile phones. The question "Don't they realize how loud they are being?" can now be answered by me -- sometimes we don't know. I suppose I should take my own advice and quit using mobile phones in public spaces.]]>
How to Ack Backtag:urbansemiotic.com,2010://2.39992010-02-03T14:18:41Z2010-02-03T14:31:54ZDavid W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
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InterNIC" that made most of us tremble as dustbowl days pioneers on the web. The InterNIC is still around today, but it is, thankfully, more invisible in processing information.
InterNIC was the entity you had to deal with when it came to registering and maintaining any domain name you owned or managed. In the early 90's, you were not able to directly register a domain name with the InterNIC as an individual, so you had to go through a third party for processing. Most of us used our Internet Service Provider (ISP) because they also hosted our websites.
The trouble many of us discovered way back when was that even though we paid for the domains, we didn't really outright "own" the domain name -- even though the domain was in our name -- because our ISP was the technical and administrative contact for our domains. So, in essence, we were only the renter of the domain name and if we wanted to move our domain to another ISP or make any address updates or contact changes, we had to first have the approval of our ISP to make the change or to make us the sole contact for the domain with the InterNIC.
There are many hosting services that still behave that way today -- they register and own the domain for you -- but in the 90's, the goal was to try to wrestle control of your domain from your ISP and that could be a big hassle because if your ISP didn't want to release your domain to you, there was no recourse available unless you hired an attorney.
If you were lucky enough to have a prescient and kind ISP who was willing to release your domain to you, the problems were just beginning. Your ISP had to tell the InterNIC of the change in ownership and you had to push a lot of paper to make it happen. The InterNIC only dealt with domain changes via hard mail and fax -- no electronic domain changes were allowed. The process of making one small change to domain ownership could take three months to initiate and change and, even back then, three months was a lifetime on the internet.
A few years later, there was a small InterNIC change made that became a watershed moment in the short history of managing domains: You could use email to make changes to your domain and ownership. However, the process was very specific. You had to request a certain form online, have it sent to the registered email account associated with your domain -- if you no longer had access to that email address, you were dead in the water with no resolution except attorneys and hard mail -- and then you had to do several, specific, things to get the changes to "take" in the system because it was all done via computers and robot responders without any human interaction on the InterNIC end.
If you made one, tiny, error in your response to the InterNIC change email, you had to wait a few days for your change request to clear the InterNIC cache server and then you had to start all over.
The thing most people missed in the InterNIC change form was the explicit instruction to "Ack" back every single change you wanted to make. "Ack" was short for "Acknowledge" and if you changed five things in your domain record, you had to specifically type "Ack" in the proper space provided for each change you were making. Miss a single Ack? You had to start over.
The "Ack Back" process was tiring -- especially if you owned a lot of domains -- but it taught you how to carefully read and how to insert each "Ack" into the proper line -- and you quickly learned a computer robot response was trained to look for and amend the proper "Acks" in a unique context to process the request. You learned to follow rules and to adhere to a strict call and response that offered zero flexibility in the communicative dyad.
Us "Internet Old Timers" are furious "Ack Backers" -- you email us, we endlessly reply back -- because we've been trained by our InterNIC experience that an Ack is the only and appropriate response. Sometimes an "Ack" changes into an "Ok" -- and that's fine because an "Ok" is an "Ack" in sandals and short sleeves -- while no response whatsoever is considered a "Fail."
"We Who Have Lived Through The Internet Fire" also understand email messages can get lost, misdirected, marked as Spam and sometimes just never arrive where they are expected -- and there's no way to know the why of it -- and that's why we always "Acknowledge" back even if a common assumption can be made that the message was received.
Kids today have no memory of the "Ack Back" and they heuristically assume successful email delivery and receipt is as reliable as a heartbeat when the dangers to data loss are still substantial -- but not as immediately deathly as twenty years ago -- and that's why an "Ok" must always be sent in reply even if you don't feel it is necessary. That "Ack" lets the sender know you got the message even if you have nothing else to add.
The next time you ask for information and receive it -- send back an "Ack."
The next time you are asked a question you may not want to answer -- Don't answer, but "Ack" back.
The next time you ask for a favor and get it -- you don't have to send a "Thank You," but you must "Ack."
Sometimes you can get caught in a circle of "Acking Back" and that's okay, because to not "Ack" is to entirely refuse to effectively communicate a proper end to a never-ending beginning.]]>
The Unforgiven Movable Type 5.01 Reviewtag:urbansemiotic.com,2010://2.39682010-01-22T12:57:17Z2010-01-22T12:58:50Z It's that time of the year again when we open our hearts to Six Apart and another major Movable Type upgrade only to once again have our love spun unrequited and our delicate hearts shattered by a reality that...David W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
another major Movable Type upgrade only to once again have our love spun unrequited and our delicate hearts shattered by a reality that belies the promise.
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The first thing I noticed after the upgrade is that Movable Type 5.01 is still dog slow when it comes to republishing -- and I pay a lot of money for a Pair Networks private server so Movable Type can breathe and use as many resources as it needs. It now takes 44 minutes to republish this Urban Semiotic blog while under Movable Type 4.33, the job was done in under 34 minutes. Some upgrade. Ugh.
I pay Pair Networks to manage my Movable Type installations and setup and they do an outstanding job. Sometimes, though, while waiting for Pair to get back to me on an issue, I will venture over to the official Six Apart forums for Movable Type to see if anyone there has a quick fix for a nagging issue.
After upgrading to 5.01 last night, there were two pending problems. The first had to do with a wonky looking Sign In page -- Pair told me to refresh the system template for the Login Page and republish all my blogs and that fixed the problem of formatting, but commenters still cannot login and we're actively searching for a fix to that problem.
The other issue was a more serious CSS formatting problem and loss of some images that was caused by the upgrade to 5.01.
Here is my call for help posted two days ago at 4:46pm.
As of right now, I am the only one who responded to my own cry for
help -- though later in the day one person did respond. I find that lack of activity curious and strange since 5.01 has been available
for a couple of weeks and usually when new software is released the online community is abuzz with action and inquiry.
The Movable Type forums are dead. There isn't anybody there. It's a
whispering ghost town and it makes you wonder what's really going on
with this major upgrade.
Here's a screenshot of the CSS/Image Woe I'm having while using Safari, iPhone Safari, Omniweb and Opera on Mac. Click on the main page for Urban Semiotic and everything is fine; but when you click through to read the whole article, the page becomes unstyled and some images go missing:
Here's the Activity report from Safari:
I wonder if the Image problem is related to the new meme in MT
5.01 where blogs are websites and websites are blogs or blogs are inside
websites and websites contain blogs... or not.
Sound confusing? It is horribly confusing and I have no idea what Six Apart consider a blog and what they now consider a website. I don't understand their need to so wholly confuse the concept of blog publishing. Is MT 5.01 a CMS or a blogging platform or is it now a website design tool?
I know some people have had problems trying to publish their blogs to a root URL while also publishing a website to the same root -- I have no idea what that means, really -- and all I did when Pair set me up was go into the Admin area and set the URL for all my blogs, republish, and hold thumbs that everything would work.
For some reason, Six Apart use "http:///" to indicate a website URL. Is that new? If it means something to you, please share the definition in the comments below. Three whacks instead of two is just plain odd and confusing to me.
It looks like there are supposed to be images of my blogs next to their description, but right now there is only a placeholder image. I don't know why it's that way and I have no idea how to fix it.
The Admin area has a new sidebar on the left side of the screen. I wish when you clicked on a Down Arrow to reveal a choice, that choice was remembered by the system. You spend a lot of time re-clicking on Down Arrows in 5.01 to get your work done.
I run a multi-blog setup -- with symbolic links to mt-static -- and under MT 4.33 I could see 10 of my 13 blogs in a single drop-down menu.
For some reason, Six Apart now limits you to only seeing half as many blogs in drop-down view. I have to click on "Select Another Blog" to see my other eight blogs and that's just a backwards hassle.
The new backend interface for MT 5.01 is much cleaner.
It even smells fresher!
Creating new Entries, Pages and Assets is done via drop-down menu on the right side of your workspace. Clicking on the icons will Republish, View and Search your blog.
Writing articles feels the same -- but I can no longer grab-and-drag my write window to make to larger to fill my screen.
That's another, annoying, backwards change in the updated advancement of Movable Type.
The information panel on the right side of your writing workspace works the same but looks sleeker.
Movable Type 5.01 feels more like an aesthetic update to the backend Admin interface than an under-the-hood revaluing of the mechanics of making publishing faster, better and stronger.
Movable Type is still a massive bully of a resources hog, so be careful what gewgaws and fun stuff you add in the sidebar. I had to remove the MultiBlog Plugin index page update for all my blogs when a new article publishes to refresh all my RSS feeds because my server couldn't handle the load and Apache would die a slow death. I also turned off "Recent Comments" in the sidebar to try and force some speed back into my page loads.
Another odd thing I do not like in the upgrade from 4.33 to 5.01 is that everyone who Signed In to comment on an article since we started to require Signing In before commenting, was transformed into a MT-registered user -- even though we do not allow direct MT registration for users and this happened if the commenters were logging in with Google or Yahoo! or Livejournal, etc.! My "users" leapt up from 15 to over 400!
I don't want all those people in my MT database as users when they are not writing articles and are infrequently commenting. I spent the morning deleting hundreds of users I do not want or need who were directly
registered with my blog because of the 5.01 upgrade.
As well, all my previous "Disabled" MT-registered users were suddenly re-enabled -- so I had to go back and re-disable them after the 5.01 upgrade.
If you're happy with Movable Type 4.33 -- I'd stay right where you are -- because I see, feel and experience zero benefit in the upgrade to 5.01. I am so grateful I have Pair Networks on my side to help me try to hammer Movable Type 5.01 into place.
EDITED TO ADD: Whoops! I just tried to publish this article and was met with the following error message:
I have no idea what that error message means or how to fix it, so I'm off to ask Pair Networks. If you're reading this article, you know they were able to fix it for me.
UPDATED 24 HOURS LATER: I was unable to get his review published yesterday. Late in the day, Tim at Pair figured out what was going on with my 5.01 upgrade. MT 5.01 requires every blog to be bundled -- captured, if you will -- inside a website. Then you publish the blog contained in the website without publishing the website or the website will overwrite the blog.
I had to create a container "website" for all 13 blogs, and change settings and setups for each website and blog and then republish every single blog within its new identity as a website without really being a website. Confusing much?
In MT 5.01, you spend a lot of time clicking through sticky menus. In this screenshot, I had to choose the "Create a website" 13 times.
Then I had to fill out this sort of page 13 times for each new website based on an existing blog. Remember that strange "///" problem we had earlier in the review? The reason for that is found below. That is the default name given to an MT 5.01 website -- at least that's the way it was in my upgrade. I had to change that to the name of a blog and then fill out a URL and a path.
Once I created "websites" for all my blogs, I then had to "Move" each blog, one-by-one, into its new website home container. Once that was done, I had to republish each blog again and then I was finally able to post new articles and the previously mentioned CSS problems I had went away.
Requiring existing blogs to be tethered to meaningless "websites"
unforgivably punishes existing Movable Type bloggers into having to
manage a whole new publishing meme with zero added benefit and the default System view is for websites, not blogs!
It also seems 6A removed two of the most important managerial features I depended on every day to run 13 blogs:
1. They removed the overall system view of all comments across all blogs so I can directly reply, via the Admin area, to my commenters across all blogs. In 5.01 I have to switch 13 times to reply to comments in each blog. That's an upgrade?
2. They removed the ability to see and manage all caught Spam across all blogs to check for the inevitable false-positive caught comments. Now I have to change views 13 times to check the Spam queue for each blog. Oooff.
I have absolutely no idea why these changes were made to Movable Type because I don't see any added ease-of-use while a lot of extra, sticky, steps have been added to burden my blog publishing day. Let's hope Six Apart listens to its power, multi-blog, users and sets things right back to the way they used to be in 4.x. ]]>
Excelling in Hate: Rush Limbaugh Does Not Want You to Help Haititag:urbansemiotic.com,2010://2.39392010-01-15T00:20:19Z2010-01-14T22:20:12Z In the days since Haiti was rocked with terrifying earthquakes that may have killed more than 100,000 people and destroyed buildings and infrastructure, support has been pouring in from all over the world....Gordon Davidescuhttp://bolesblogs.com
terrifying earthquakes that may have killed more than 100,000 people and destroyed buildings and infrastructure, support has been pouring in from all over the world.
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Oxycontin Moron Rush Limbaugh was anti-humanitarian.
It is a sad fact that Rush Limbaugh despises the country of Haiti, ridiculing the appointment of former President Clinton as envoy.
I'm just gonna tell you, if I was named envoy to Haiti, I'd quit government. Envoy to Haiti? You can't even pick up a prostitute down there without genuine fear of AIDS.
Now he comes along and shuns an opportunity to ask his loyal dittoheads to help the struggling nation, and instead insists that we already do give aid to Haiti by paying income tax.
Stay classy, Mr. Limbaugh. On the plus side, he didn't say that they deserved it because they made a pact with the devil.
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Underpants on a Planetag:urbansemiotic.com,2010://2.38952010-01-08T12:46:48Z2010-01-08T12:46:40ZDavid W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
took personal responsibility for the failure to stop the "underwear bomber" from getting on the plane.
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under the W;
did he ever take similar responsibility in public for something that
wasn't really his fault but he was willing to take the blame because The People needed to pin the tail on a convenient donkey?
Instead of praising Obama for standing up and being a man and taking the slings and arrows of a disgruntled national public as any president should, his dissenters are actually blaming him as if he were really the one who decided to let the underpants on the plane.
Do we want a stand up president?
Or do we deserve a president who passes the buck of blame around to stick on others?
Even if you disagree with Obama's policies, you must confess he doesn't hide behind the mistakes of others and he stands forward and leads even if he bleeds.
Barack Obama sets the example for excellence in leadership and if we had more presidents like him, the USA would be a better place now because bad behavior never would've been part and parcel of our international public policy profile. ]]>
Top Ten Predictions for 2010tag:urbansemiotic.com,2009://2.38612009-12-31T15:02:00Z2009-12-31T15:02:01ZDavid W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
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predictions for 2009 were just awful -- the worst in my predicto history. I was too heavy on the politics and so surprisingly wrong about Obama, Palin and McCain.
Out of 10 predictions for 2009, I got one and a half right. I was half right we would not have any national healthcare system -- the monster that is being discussed is hardly kind or proper healthcare; and the second one I scored with was the idea that eBooks would grow to be more popular than paper books.
Here are my Top Ten predictions for 2010:
1. The Apple Tablet will be a bust. Is is an iPhone or a Kindle beater? Virtual keyboards are not there yet and if you need a physical keyboard to use the tablet, then you've killed the whole notion of having tablet. The Apple tablet will get great reviews, but it will be too heavy and no one will buy it except for fanbois like me.
2. Verizon will become the number one iPhone reseller.
3. Barack Obama will continue to slide in the polls because he has rotted his core into disappointment and the "other side" hates him with such a passion that they will never stop chewing on him until they draw blood.
5. eBooks will continue their upward rise to beat hardcopy books.
6. Community Colleges will offer more online courses than in-person classes on campus.
7. We will finally have a proper "Pet Health Care" tax deduction that will be kinder and more aggressively human than the national healthcare plan we will "have" without really benefiting from it.
8. Google will become the number two phone maker.
9. Google Wave will flop. I had high hopes for Wave, but it's been dead in beta for two months without any response or active intuiting from Google. Those are traditionally bad signs for a Google product. Wave suffers from an innate lack of privacy controls and to get Wave to work as we expect it to would take an entire rewriting of the code and the mission of the product. Fail.
10. The divorce rate will drop in the USA -- not due to love or staying together "for the sake of the kids" -- but to save money in an economy that will continue to disintegrate and decline.
That's it!
Those are my Top Ten predictions for 2010 -- now we only have to wait 12 months to see how well I scored.
We wish you all the best for 2010 and we thank you for so voraciously reading all 13 Blogs in the Boles Blogs Network. We're nothing without you and we will have lots more for you to read and enjoy in the New Year to come.
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Domino's Pizza Turnaround Fail Fail Failtag:urbansemiotic.com,2009://2.38472009-12-29T12:55:36Z2009-12-29T12:55:28ZDavid W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
suspending my eating morality for two seconds and took a bite of the "new and improved" Domino's -- cheese only -- pizza to see just how much had changed with the iconic pizza of my childhood.
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The pizza tasted bitter. The pizza tasted no different from the previous cardboard and shoelace recipe.
We all felt duped by Domino's for falling prey to a clever and cloying advertising campaign aimed to artificially increase short-term sales while selling the soul of the future pizza franchise.
On the main page of the Domino's website, there's a guarantee you will love the reinvented pizza or you get your money back. Okay. Good idea. Nice thought.
However, there's no clear way to collect on their guarantee! So what's a guarantee without a payout? Another joke on us.
Domino's is really media blitzing this new "turnaround" in their sauce, crust and cheese, but in the end, the taste is the same: Awful, stiff, stale.
I'm not sure what Domino's is trying to achieve with this sort of viral
infection of their pizza past by condemning what they did against what
they've done now, but when nothing changes and everything stays the same -- you begin to think you're the one who is going crazy -- because Domino's can't be that debased and calloused to trick you into believing you're tasting something new when you are not. Or can they? I guess they did.
We suggest Domino's rename their campaign from "The Pizza Turnaround" to "Pizza Groundhog Day." ]]>
United Stage is Now a Boles Network Blogtag:urbansemiotic.com,2009://2.37032009-12-21T12:27:36Z2009-12-21T12:27:19ZFinding the right form for expression is always a challenging effort and mandate and today, we are delighted announce that UnitedStage.com has transmogrified from website into the 13th blog in the Boles Blogs Network!...David W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
UnitedStage.com has transmogrified from website into the 13th blog in the Boles Blogs Network!
We hope you will check out the new United Stage and join us there with discussions of what makes a great live performance and why so much drama today is dead in the box. ]]>
Boles Blues Blog Debuttag:urbansemiotic.com,2009://2.36642009-12-16T13:36:52Z2009-12-16T13:36:17ZWe are delighted to bring you -- Boles Blues -- the 12th, and newest, blog in the Boles Blogs Network!...David W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
Boles Blues -- the 12th, and newest, blog in the Boles Blogs Network!
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BolesBlues.com will bring you the best in music -- reviews, tips, tricks, tutorials and insight -- and we will do our best to span the international song scene.
We will also celebrate the core of all Real Music: The Blues.
Don't miss a beat; join our new rhythm! ]]>
Urban Semiotic in Contexttag:urbansemiotic.com,2009://2.36452009-12-09T13:01:04Z2009-12-09T13:01:13Z We always find it fascinating how memes are passed from one mind to another, and when we started this Urban Semiotic blog in 2004, the binding of "Urban" and "Semiotic" into a single idea was not prevalent or popular....David W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
memes are passed from one mind to another, and when we started this Urban Semiotic blog in 2004, the binding of "Urban" and "Semiotic" into a single idea was not prevalent or popular. Today, a curious site called Osun.org provides this odd search return for: http://www.osun.org/Urban+Semiotic-pdf.html
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Is Osun.org helping spread the "Urban Semiotic" meme -- or is it merely living off previously forged connections?
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Reversing the Knurl: A Talent for Untyingtag:urbansemiotic.com,2009://2.36422009-12-08T14:35:44Z2009-12-08T14:36:02ZDavid W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
Is it because they have to backward process messy and unkind information for the untangling?
It's simpler to think linearly in a predictable, straight, forward, line with no bends or creases in the logic -- and when the stress of just going along becomes unbearable -- the middle-minded grab the loose ends and begin twisting.
Untying demands the fixer enter the knotted mind of the besotted to reverse the knurl -- and that talent takes patience, practice and a clearly creative mind that is accustomed to thinking live in a space and time not of their own making. ]]>
