Anne Truitt Zelenka

I have few words left in me. Few words for tech blogging and this website, at least. I have been blogging a little on my food blog:

• Celebrating Fat Tuesday
• Superfast Salisbury Steak

But I feel mostly mute when it comes to talking about the “connected age” which is the ostensible subject of this blog. Pro blogging and book writing killed my ability to blog from inspiration rather than requirement or income. I am like a preschooler paid for drawings.

There are a few things I’m thinking about even though not writing about:

• The talk of the unified social graph. I say nay; I am with danah boyd on this one.
• This portrait of Charles Taylor and review of his latest book. Since an old high school friend introduced me to his work, Taylor has become my favorite philosopher for making rigorous sense of authenticity. Now Taylor has tackled the question of naturalism and secularism in which we reduce the human experience to biology, neurology, chemistry. That’s a question that’s related to the discussion launched by my review of Discovering Your Inner Samurai.
• Can burstiness happen in reverse? I think so. An implosion of possibility instead of explosion, an unraveling of profit whether monetary or otherwise. I’m reading about something along those lines in A Demon of Our Own Design, a book about how financial innovations can destabilize financial markets, and I’m experiencing it in my own work life (but not necessarily in a bad way; in a rejuvenating, rebooting way… I hope).

And on the topic of burstiness — someone said to me today, “I expected that this would lead to better things but not so fast!” He started at one place and leapt to another via online social ties. That’s the burstiness of the web: it makes the world actionably small. It used to be only theoretically small.

You know what I hated the most about pro blogging? Not being able to ramble like this.