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My observations and ruminations on life and literature
Listed: Nov 17, 2010
Shane Joseph's Blog - some of my thoughts ― What is the value of a book review today– can it be trusted? On the surface, it’s one person’s subjective (and sometimes biased) view on a text. Why read it unless that person’s tastes are similar to yours and unless ...
Tags: Uncategorized, Author, Book, Book Reviews, Reviews, Writer
Shane Joseph ― 6 hr ago
Shane Joseph's Blog - some of my thoughts ― This is a controversial subject. Let me make that clear at the outset. And I apologize in advance if I come across as that typecast “male, chauvinist p—”; that is certainly not my intention. But as I am one among … ...
Tags: Uncategorized, Aging, Bellow, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Irving
Shane Joseph ― 3 weeks 1 day ago
Shane Joseph's Blog - some of my thoughts ― As writers struggle for a spot in the literary limelight, as traditional magazines and publishing houses discard box loads of submissions, and as supply outstrips demand at increasingly higher rates, there is a niche player ascending like a ...
Tags: Uncategorized, Anthology, Author, Contributor, Editor, Niche
Shane Joseph ― 6 weeks 6 days ago
Shane Joseph's Blog - some of my thoughts ― Someone told me that with Google Earth, Wikipedia and other instant information tools readily at our fingertips these days, there was no longer a need to travel to foreign places to get a sense of culture, language, food, geography and …...
Tags: Uncategorized, Cape Town, Cities, Costa Rica, Countries, Education
Shane Joseph ― 10 weeks ago
Shane Joseph's Blog - some of my thoughts ― When the white smoke billowed in St. Peter’s Square, concluding one of the oldest spectator sports (until the next conclave), and when the humble man dressed in plain white raised only one hand to the masses on what was the … Continue...
Tags: Uncategorized, Assisi, Audacious, Big, Catholic, Christian
Shane Joseph ― 12 weeks ago
Shane Joseph's Blog - some of my thoughts ― I blogged on this subject recently, but thought it worth revisiting as new material keeps coming up. I spoke to a twenty-something the other day, who worked in a call centre of one of our large communications companies. I was … Continue...
Tags: Uncategorized, AHT, Cartoon, Concentration Camps, Corporate, Dilbert
Shane Joseph ― 15 weeks ago
Shane Joseph's Blog - some of my thoughts ― I recently read an article by respected journalist and author Thomas L Friedman in which he advocates that the incoming Secretary of State break all the rules of diplomacy, leverage social networks and go direct to the people of foreign …...
Tags: Uncategorized, America, Civilized, Democratic, Diplomacy, Flat
Shane Joseph ― 17 weeks ago
Shane Joseph's Blog - some of my thoughts ― I tried to recall life without social media. Wasn’t it just a few years ago when I walked around without a portable device strapped to my waist, a device willing to announce my every grunt, burp and fart to the … Continue reading →
Tags: Uncategorized, Always On, Behaviour, Blackberry, Cities, Device
Shane Joseph ― 19 weeks ago
Shane Joseph's Blog - some of my thoughts ― I’m guessing it was around 2008, when the financial meltdown crushed many corporations that a subtle shift in social skills exhibited in the workplace began to take place. When the survivors were tasked with “doing more with less,” to an …...
Tags: Uncategorized, Corporate, E-mail, Fairy, Financial, Meetings
Shane Joseph ― 21 weeks ago
Shane Joseph's Blog - some of my thoughts ― When I read the recent headline in our national newspaper announcing that Canada was opening a website where prospective employers and skilled foreign workers could date each other, one side of me was heartened and the other side petrified. I ...
Tags: Uncategorized, Business, Canada, Canadian, Dating, Foreign
Shane Joseph ― 23 weeks ago
Shane Joseph's Blog - some of my thoughts ― This will possibly be my one and only post for December. I have been in a pensive mood of late, observing the world as writers normally do, trying to understand its subtext: another mass shooting down south, a man-made fiscal … Continue ...
Tags: Uncategorized, 2013, Christmas, Family, Fiscal Cliff, Technology
Shane Joseph ― 25 weeks ago
Shane Joseph's Blog - some of my thoughts ― I overheard these two guys, Jim and Sam, talking on the subway. Jim: You’ve been on this social media kick for some time now. Is it working for you? Sam: Sure is, man. I’d be resenting talking to you right … Continue reading →
Tags: Uncategorized, Diatribe, Facebook, Jim, Like, Media
Shane Joseph ― 28 weeks ago
Currently around a half of organizations ranging in size from SMEs to large multinationals ...
∙ One of the few things I consider when buying a frock is the print. Growing up, I ...
My first thought when I saw the topic for this weeks Photo Challenge: Curves was the ...