Just kidding... This was the real curtain call (Also for my best friend). So long, #Artfight. See you next year!
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![Letter from the Editor
Dear Readers,
E-mail. Blog. Web site. YouTube. Flickr. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. MySpace. eBay. Etsy. Instant message. Text message.
Did I miss anything?
In this ever-changing world, where the speed of technology moves at a manic pace, I'm pretty sure I did miss something. But what I find fascinating is that in most of our lifetimes, we have existed in realities where none of the technological tools as listed above ever existed. How did we do it?
It wasn't that long ago when we also existed in realities when the television actually turned off.
Remember that? At a certain hour around midnight, there was that American flag on the screen with the national anthem being played to give notice to its viewers that if we weren't going to turn the tube off, then the tube would take matters into its own hands and turn us off. And sure enough, the anthem was always immediately followed by a snowy screen of nothingness on all channels. Time to go to sleep.
I remember the thrill of discovering the Internet for the first time. What power my computer had to take me all over the world... to connect with almost anyone at any time ... without content ever segueing into the national anthem and then to a snowy screen of nothingness. Always on.
I also remember a few times when content on a Web site that I was looking at changed faster than I was looking at it. I learned this lesson the hard way when I was at a site to buy silver and the price I was looking at actually changed from the time I logged on to the time I was ready to buy. That's when the importance of pushing the "refresh" button was learned.
Recently, I was talking to an aspiring artist who got her blog all set up to go and found herself not knowing what to put on it.
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