Today’s Words:
confess
dreary
maker
sketchy
gutter press
bystander
swagger

I am much taken lately with Twitter. Every day I get much pleasure out of spitting little blurts about my daily goings-on. It’s like having a portable confessional. Meanwhile I also get to follow my friends blurts. Many of which are comments on other frineds, who I then also can follow. It makes an otherwise dreary day full of amusing links, news I actually care about (not gutter press), and online socializing. It’s like working in an office. An office full of really hip, geeky, fun, interesting people. And I’m not just a bystander, wishing I was cool enough to be in the cool conversation.

It makes me want to start a blog about online culture, openness and transparency and authenticity, about freedom of information, and about how the accessibility revolution is the newest cultural shift and how it will impact everything. Accessible in terms of easy-to-use and easy-to-grok, but also freely-available and open-to-everyone. Low-cost, open-source, it’s all happening. The world is changing and the forefront of culture is here, on the internet. The next revolution won’t be televised, it will be podcast. But not just podcast - blogged, tweeted, emailed, YouTubed–there are so many channels and they are all free or very low cost to enter. Every cheap digital camera has a video camera built in. Quality still matters, but ideas matter more some times.

Which is why I think it’s so important to learn how to cultivate your own creativity. This brave new world revolves around ideas, around pure creative output. Can you do something new? Interesting? Funny? We’ve seen funny cat pictures, but can you take it one step further?

How do ideas get created? They don’t. Brilliant ideas come through us, not from us, and therefore we need to keep the channels clear. Open up wide, and flush out the cruft. Picture yourself as a hose, and the energy is pouring through you out onto the page. Are you a firehose? Or one of those lame coffee straws that you can barely suck air through? Either way, keep writing. Keep creating. That’s how it happens. And keep telling yourself I am meant to create. I am a creative being, and this is what I do…I allow brilliance to manifest through me. Shine, shine, shine. Yee-haw!!