Since I’ve already graduated from UMass Amherst, it makes sense to migrate my blog to a new hosting.
Starting from today, I advise all my loyal visitors, to bookmark http://freeofpaper.blogspot.com as Ian Wang’s blog!
Go GO Go
Since I’ve already graduated from UMass Amherst, it makes sense to migrate my blog to a new hosting.
Starting from today, I advise all my loyal visitors, to bookmark http://freeofpaper.blogspot.com as Ian Wang’s blog!
Go GO Go
Umass account will expire in 3 months, so it’s time for a new blog. Of course, I prefer WordPress, but their free hosting services are kinda lame. So, blogger or typepad?
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Two final poems before this blog is to be deleted for good.
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5:55 pm The ferry leaves
5:34 pm Bare feet,
Tired, brain-fried,
the Republic of flagpole
disappears above
the eyes of all.
My atavistic lone ranger–
His solvency
of a lonely ranger,
rigged before the water,
takes in the setting sun
on the other side. Then
continuing, on
his ride of
hunger.
Meanwhile,
lovers are kissing
each on the shoulder, and
I take their mirror away
for protection.
—
Millions of free bodied seaworms
scrounge up the shore
each livelier than
the other to take on a
side-flipping flight.
For what?
Sweet promises of the
land are no fainter
than the salty pulses of
the sea that have delivered
them here.
How does Social Media really change the way we perceive information? I ask this question myself all the time, and honestly in the beginning I was a non-believer. I was apprehensive about the advent of digital technology replacing the nostalgic ‘sensory’ feeling we get, from touching a newspaper, getting inks on our finger tips, and using newspaper to wipe spilled coffee on the table. These are things you can’t do with a laptop.
However, no matter how much I think about this, I can never get to a truly satisfactory answer. Fragments of thoughts appear from time to time, and today something occurred to me, while watching people on the MUNI, that I believe is another piece in this Social puzzle. The very medium of reception: reading from a personal piece of technology, provides a much more intimate and personal experience compared to traditional, mass-printed media, even though the content that we access from these personal devices are still mass produced.
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