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Book Review | Softer Power
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Life, Politics, Sports, Music, and the Web. Here, I shall do my best to share what books I am reading, and, i appropriate, offer some insight as to what I think. Generally, though, I will review as I finish. I’m going to start from right now, and will likely complete my first review toward the end of January. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out.
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My Netflix | Softer Power
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Life, Politics, Sports, Music, and the Web. Discussion and reviews of the films I’ve gotten on Netflix. Suggestions always welcome. I’ll start working backwards in time, but I’ll try to review each film as I see it. The Lives of Others. My rating: 4.0/5.0. While Clerks II, the only other Smith movie I’ve seen, is hilarious but simply about romance,. I enjoyed the film immensely, and will watch it again if given the opportunity. February 5, 2009 at 10:21 am. When is the Color Purple review coming? You are...
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What Came First – the Music or the Misery? | Softer Power
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Life, Politics, Sports, Music, and the Web. What Came First – the Music or the Misery? What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music? Admittedly, I wa...
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Creating My Education | Softer Power
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Life, Politics, Sports, Music, and the Web. Perhaps one of the greatest challenges about part-time graduate school is scheduling. With a job that requires a lot of nights and weekends, building a schedule that allows me to actually make it to my classes and continue my program in a direction that actually can lead to an M.A. in Global Communication from GW. That’s not right. One day, I’d love to start combing through those fundamental articles that built my understanding of political communication ...
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Why Whitlock and Twhitlock Shouldn’t Share a Twitter Account | Softer Power
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Life, Politics, Sports, Music, and the Web. Why Whitlock and Twhitlock Shouldn’t Share a Twitter Account. Shortly before 10pm eastern time on Monday, as word began circulating that Matt Painter was considering leaving Purdue men’s basketball. For a similarly situated Missouri team, FoxSports.com writer Jason Whitlock began tweeting some silliness:. Were hearing Matt Painter to Ball State 7 yrs, $70,000 and use of a pickup. Cardinals got a great one. Well see if Purdue gets Stevens. The strategy has paid ...
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Too Many Tools | Softer Power
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Life, Politics, Sports, Music, and the Web. 8220;Go where the conversations are.”. 8211; Every PR and marketing person worthy of his/her job. There are things that I want to be able to communicate through my personal social media presence. For some time, I was desperate to grow the “social media brand’ that was “dtearl.” I use it across Twitter. And I hardly know what to do with it. It is entirely logical, if not critical, to build your social media presence around your needs, not the other way around...
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My Favorite Tracks of 2010 | Softer Power
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Life, Politics, Sports, Music, and the Web. My Favorite Tracks of 2010. Much as I’ve embraced the running joke about the piss-poor state of indie rock music in 2010, I will say that there have been a handful of songs that I’ve really, really liked. Here are my favorite 10, all released in 2010. Going back through my Last.fm profile. Here are my top ten (with a couple of honorable mentions), and a couple of thoughts on each:. Gorilla Manor – Local Natives). 2 Lost in the World. If you check out the list o...
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Tell It Like It Is, If That’s What It’ll Be | Softer Power
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Life, Politics, Sports, Music, and the Web. Tell It Like It Is, If That’s What It’ll Be. If there’s one article that everyone in sports read today (or at least tried to get through), it’s Jeffrey Toobin’s story on Fred Wilpon. The Mets’ owner, the Ponzi scheme victim (we think) and, evidently, player. Hater Watching the game from his box in Citi Field, Wilpon takes a hammer at the cornerstone of the franchise – the triad of David Wright, Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran:. Clearly, Wilpon is not above badmou...