So ya say ya wanna revolution, well ...

[tambyrd]

The pace of change. The only constant.

I'm not always sure what to do with the {relatively} new things that pop up in my life!

Yesterday I got invited to join a tech writer community. Ok, we are Information Developers and Content Managers now. Anyway. I think it's pretty cool and hope it 'takes off'. And I already belong to Ravelry where I can post all my yarn-related minutia.

I'm all for community. It's a topic that has haunted me from my young adult days, surviving the disillusionment of many failures of institutionalized community (church, education, social work & health networks). I was still writing about community as a possible workplace model when I did my master's thesis. (Some day I'll post my thesis somewhere too.) It matters. It does take a village. Modern villages are failing. Or at least changing.

Anyway.

I don't get to decide what is cool. Except for me. And I don't think Twitter is cool. Way too much community. My life first intersected with tweets when I was looking for Minicon's programming. They tweet officially, and the poster offered up her personal tweet for my enjoyment during the Con. *shudder*

Normally I'm all for anything that evokes birdness. But I get enough of that kind of community at the grocery store. "I'm in the bread aisle now." "Now I'm in the dairy section." "OK, I'm going to produce now." All that mindless chatter is probably clogging my ISP and causing my Warcraft lag! And it's a real problem for some cell phone users, I guess.

I did think Barack had a mildly interesting tweet. [20K followers; not one favorite.] Hillary's not so much. And a search turns up 8 pages of folks who have knitting twitters.

I really don't care that much about anything. Except maybe my partner, but you know? That's what I look forward to at the end of the day, coming home and hearing about what her day was like.

And when do we stop to think about things? Reflect on our experiences rather than broadcasting them real time?

I don't get to decide what is art, either. Except for me. And my preference really doesn't mean anything. What is important is that people are making art in new ways. Ways that bring people together. Ways that make people stop and think. Like flash mob freezes. Improv Everywhere started it. They have a ning community. There's a local group; they were talking about an April's Fools freeze for St. Paul! Dang! I missed it.

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That's what art should do: make you stop and take notice. Turn ordinary surroundings into something bizarre. Make you more alive and aware in that moment.

So there's always good with the bad, when things change.

Teh revolution. Bring it on.