Nostalgic content Apr25 '08
This is a brief insight into the mind of an active web content publisher. For those that wonder why am I so involved in the web, blogging, social networks, etc - this should provide a basic understanding.
The web is my life, but I'm not referring to the web as you may know it. As a web content publisher, I use blogging, Twitter, etc, to build my foundation for coming to conclusions and realizations in the real, physical world.
To understand web content publishers, you have to remove the notion that the web is just some resource used for email and research.
Active content publishers and social network enthusiasts consider the web as a much richer, far more vast environment with infinitely interesting people and ideas. Therefore, we put our lives on the web in the form of content, in order to expose ourselves as much as possible to these ideas and people.
Some would snide at using micro-blog tools like Twitter to post all of the mundane details of my daily life. Or personal blog posts about new ideas or concepts that interest me.
Such content updates, to me, is a form of nostalgia and self-enhancement. The act of writing helps formulate crystal clear ideas in my head, allowing me to think more clearly, and therefore act more effectively in the real world.
I imagine a future where I Twitter on my wedding day, the birth of my first child, and even during the tragic passing of loved ones.
I don't publish to exploit such sacred life events - I do it to enhance the nostalgia surrounding it.
To have such moments and times recorded forever is a wonderfully rich way to participate and reflect on life.
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, Life , Nostalgia , Personal , Recollections
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is published and produced by Matt Thommes - an independent publishing enthusiast, mobile blogger, content creator, informative writer, web developer from Chicago.
Never one to conform, Matt intends to promote the effect the web has on our lives, in an effort to intensify, instruct, and clarify all that is happening around us.
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