Things To Do While Avoiding Writing An Iran Blog
Let's face it, Iran is not the easiest subject to blog about. I have been writing for the past four days, on and off, taking breaks to check email for important news, fine tuning my procrastination technique, while staring out the window at the trees turning autumnal. Still no finished article, but in one of those detours from the job in hand, I came across this piece in The New Yorker.
I know it's cheap posting someone else's writing instead of creating original work, but this piece struck a chord with me, and think will do the same with some TED Fellows. I don't know about you, but when I wake up in the morning I'm not sure where I should go first after making coffee, itself an elaborate ritual which begins with grinding the beans. Log onto Amirani Films email, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, TweetDeck, Posterous, Google News Alert (Iran), The Guardian Home Page, Huffington Post, check sms on the mobile, read The Daily Onion News, look out for Skype chat, refresh my Podcast downloads, watch that must-see Youtube thing friends have posted, add new friend, reject old friend, get sucked into looking at party photos of a total stranger just because they have set their privacy setting to "Everyone" and on and on....
Some of you are brilliant at this. You can hold down a job, run a family, have a life, AND do all the above, even on the move around the globe spreading tweets every other minute as you go. But not all of us are super. Some of us long for the rotary dial phone, seeing friends face to face, and a newspaper you can hold in your hand. Or am I getting old? My friends say I don't act my age. Not sure if that's a compliment: so young at heart, in touch the with the playful child within, or a disguised insult as in "you're so immature".
We've had a backlash against the bankers. When will the backlash against the constantly connected elite on-line army start? Is this an idea for a movie? The Luddites taking up arms against the Twitterati. Needs more work, as does my Iran blog.
Taghi Amirani
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