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More tweet experimenting

This one is another experiment. I can't tell you what it's for, because I'm not sure what it's for. But, I often say things on Twitter in the moment, and I want to be able to get more people to read them.  So here is my journalistic work-day digested via tweets.  Two meetings today. Interesting things on agenda for the Charlottesville Economic Development Authority http://t.co/3iu0d9pM5e — seantubbs (@seantubbs) September 8, 2015 But the big meeting tonight is the #cville City Council meeting. Here's the agenda: http://t.co/NnDofU9sKV What are you interested in? — seantubbs (@seantubbs) September 8, 2015 Now sitting in Council Chambers for econ dev authority meeting. I'm here to cover parking study, but not clear how much info I'll get — seantubbs (@seantubbs) September 8, 2015 These meetings don't get a lot of press attention & there are 2 of us here. Board members waiting for quorum @RachelMenitoff — seantubbs (@sea

Recapping a meeting in tweets

This one's experimental. Heck, they all are, really. If you go back into the deep archives of this blog, you'll see that I often used it ten years ago to try things out and to say where I was with my experimenting with podcasting and the Internet. This was before Facebook and Twitter, and in general I was probably a bit more candid than I am on those platforms. Even this blog, until my 42nd birthday, was not very active anymore because I was afraid I would say something I didn't want everyone in my community to know.  Community.  I define that broadly, and I think most people do now. I think that Facebook in particular has given us all the chance to explore our own reality through the all of the previous communities we have been in. My friends on Facebook come from growing up in Lynchburg to my time in New Hampshire to my family across the world, but I'm mostly connected to the people I know in Charlottesville.  Twitter, though, I use to be a journalist, m

September!

The summer is over. Long live the summer, as we've got it for another month or so, along with the hint of fall. I can feel the potential for joy as the leaves fall from the trees and survival instincts kick in. How shall we survive the winter? Have we collected enough? Have we stored enough fat?  I am not sure. I just know I'm working furiously to prepare, to fix myself, and now that summer is over I can work without thinking I need to go on vacation, I can just get on with it, and I can take joy in anything. There is nothing that can stop me now but my own falling leaves, my own decay.  Music from the past can help. I'm reading Kim Gordon's memoir, Girl in a Band , at the moment, and I began my work day by listening to an album I'd not ever heard before by the Raincoats, a British all-woman band from the 1980's and I'm tempted to just listen to the whole thing again a second time.  Seems appropriate to hear as I begin the last four months