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Shane Joseph's Blog - some of my thoughts

 Shane Joseph ― http://www.shanejoseph.com

My observations and ruminations on life and literature

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Listed: Nov 17, 2010

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Is the (good) book review dead?

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

The Aging Male Writer and his Vanishing Audience

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

The Anthology Editor – a rising player

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

Travel is Education

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

Big Hairy Audacious Dreaming

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

Declining Corporate Skills – part 2

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

Go to the People? Tom, are you kidding?

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

Trying to imagine life without social media

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

Declining Social Skills in the Corporate World

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

Dating Game for Wannabe Skilled Immigrants

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

Year-end Miscellany

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

Lessons on Social Media From Two Guys on the Subway

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

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