worldviews

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  wednesday trendsday [google trends #5]

  creativity and art, worldviews 8 comments

  Bloggers have a way of communicating and sharing very honest, real, and sometimes raw perspectives on things. Sometimes though, we struggle finding what we should be talking about. That’s one of the many reasons I love to do this exercise. When I look at trending topics, they’re filled with things that people [...]

   
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  wednesday trendsday [google trends #4]

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  One of my greatest fears as a blogger is writing about things that people don’t care about. Too often I see bloggers (and other writers) practicing their craft in complete isolation from the real world. And if you look at the tagline under my blog title, then it’s easy to [...]

   
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  throwing stones [at kye allums]

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  “A female-to-male transgender member of the George Washington women’s basketball team wants to be identified as a man this season.” (AP for ESPN.com) When I came across this story in Google trends (for wednesday trendsday), all kinds of things went through my mind. Discussing the sexual identity/orientation and trans gender issues can [...]

   
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  wednesday trendsday [google trends #3]

  creativity and art, engaged in culture, worldviews 7 comments

  I love search engine traffic! And I especially love the new readers that I’ve been getting from some interesting conversations recently! These conversations have focused on topics that I probably wouldn’t even be writing about if it wasn’t for a fun little blogging exercise like this. What is it? Pick [...]

   
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  google trends [blogging challenge for 10/22]

  creativity and art, engaged in culture, worldviews 14 comments

  I got a bunch of search engine traffic last week from people searching the term shibboleet. I know… shibbo-what? I had the same exact question when I peeked at the trending search terms on Google. In my curiosity I decided to write a post about it. The post even got [...]

   
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  shibboleet [and other verbal handshakes]

  engaged in culture, worldviews 8 comments

  There’s a little buzz going around regarding this unusual word… shibboleet. It was used in a web-comic about tech support providing the caller a way to circumvent the usual process and get to someone special. Sort of a secret password deal. The word seems to be a neologism of two [...]

   
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  google trends [blogging challenge]

  creativity and art, engaged in culture, worldviews 12 comments

  I love finding ways to stretch myself as a blogger. Especially when it forces me to engage in very real and relevant conversations. So I wanted to try something new, and would like to invite other bloggers to try this activity out with me. This should be a fairly simple [...]