The Pre-Socratic philosopher, Heraclitus, once wrote, "You never step into the same river twice." He was noting the eternal shift and change in life. Nothing is constant except, of course, change. With this notion, I create this first blog post.
Although I have studied media, I was hesitant to embed myself into the many facets that personal media have taken: Facebook, LinkedIn, Blogging, Smartphones, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, etc.
A virtual world where the irrelevant and the sublime are given equal voice, where critical reflection and examination are ghosts but the latest buzz or trend is a vibrant and seductive temptress, and where "friends" are no longer people but words or, at best, pixels of still or moving images.
With some luck and a little ancient (and not-so-ancient) wisdom, may we find the sublime through all the noise, resurrect the ghosts of critical thinking, and hopefully, better understand ourselves in a world where media bombard us at every turn.
