Ari Herzog

AUGUST 2, 2020

Photo by Element5 Digital from Pexels. Massachusetts Primary Day arrives on September 1, 2020. The Democratic ballot has a 2-way race for the U.S. Senate and a 9-way race for a U.S. House district, and Joseph P. Kennedy III is the reason for both races. Among my friends who follow state politics, it’s chaos. A grandson of U.S. Senator and Attorney General Robert F.

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JULY 27, 2020

Ask a child for his or her favorite hero and you’re likely to hear Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Black Panther, the Hulk, Elsa, Leia, or Harry Potter. Maybe someone else. Ask an adult for his or her favorite hero and you’re likely to hear the same. Once a hero, always a hero. The pandemic introduced a new crop of heroes. They don’t wear capes and they don’t have superhuman strengths but they stand united in their willingness and passion to get the job done.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 24, 2020

This is the 1,526th blog post since May 2007. Granted, some of those were written by other people who contributed guest posts. The vast majority are mine. Suffice to say, I like blogging. I appreciate that the pandemic arrived to inspire me to write on a more frequent schedule, whether I’m sharing my thoughts of the day or opinions about a researched topic.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 23, 2020

Media websites are full of headlines that bait readers to click links for more information about what the President says. Trump says coronavirus in US will get worse before it gets better as nationwide death toll continues to climb past 140,000. Trump says he never asked ambassador to bring British Open to his golf course. Trump Says He’s Sending Federal Agents To Chicago And Albuquerque Even Though They’re Not Wanted.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 23, 2020

Media websites are full of headlines that bait readers to click links for more information about what the President says. For instance, here are original headlines followed by example rewrites. President Trump says “Wear a mask” New: Wear a mask! Trump says closing more Chinese consulates in US ‘always possible’ New: Chinese consulates may be closed.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 13, 2020

There is a website that details every national day — from the serious World Hepatitis Day on July 28 to the fanatic National Ravioli Day on March 20 to the silly Slap Your Annoying Coworker Day on October 23. Months are also listed, such as Lyme Disease Awareness Month in May, National Immunization Awareness Month in August, and Black History Month in February.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 9, 2020

According to Merriam-Webster, the word “ coronavirus ” was first used in 1968 and “ pandemic ” in 1666. The population is smart enough by now to know what the words mean. Further, they grasp socioeconomic ramifications beyond the words themselves. They know what a case means. They know about distancing. They know about face coverings.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 6, 2020

John Steinbeck and his French poodle, Charley, embarked on a road trip across the United States in 1960. He wrote about his travels in a 1962 book, entitled, “Travels with Charley: In Search of America.” It’s one of my favorite books. I initially read it after my own cross-country road trip in 2001. Among his nuggets of perspective, Steinbeck wrote about the connection between the journey and the destination. “In Spanish there is a word for which I can’t find a coun

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 22, 2020

The Associated Press announced on June 19, 2020 that it is capitalizing Black “in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense,” said John Daniszewski, the AP’s Vice President of Standards. “The lowercase black is a color, not a person.” It’s gratifying to recognize that newspapers, magazines, and media organizations using the AP Stylebook are now asked to write Black (with a capital B) alongside Asian, Hispanic, Indigenous, Latinx, Native American, and other racial, et

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 17, 2020

Three months ago on this day, I resurrected my 13-year-old blog with a focus on our global landscape as humanity went to war with a germ. I wrote the headline, “ The Coronavirus is Here and Our New Normal Begins.” Anonymous data from Google Analytics tells me that nearly 2,400 people visited my blog. Thank you for coming and I hope that you come back.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 16, 2020

The most popular terms to change the structure of the police department are to reform, defund, dismantle, and abolish. This is what they mean. Words matter. Dismantling and abolition may be necessary in the future, but to demand them today is damaging if a crime is underway and if a trained officer may be the best person to respond. Defunding carries a negative perception analogous to elimination.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 5, 2020

Today is June 5, 2020. On June 5, 1981, the CDC published a report that indicated five men in Los Angeles contracted a “cellular-immune dysfunction related to a common exposure” and a “disease acquired through sexual contact.” Those five men represent the first cases of AIDS, or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, a term established in 1982.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 2, 2020

I hear sirens in the distance. I am sitting at my kitchen table, the window is open, and police cruisers are going somewhere. It’s probably a car accident, I think to myself. Maybe it’s related to the pandemic. Maybe someone walked too close to someone else without wearing a mask, words were exchanged, and a fight developed. What else could happen at 9:00 at night?

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Ari Herzog

MAY 29, 2020

It seems that everyone has a playlist of songs about the coronavirus, quarantining, and the pandemic. Pick your noun. I saw other people’s lists and then I saw a lot of websites that included more lists, and I created my own list. It’s on Spotify and you can follow it here. My list includes obvious selections such as “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” by The Police, “Toxic” by Britney Spears, “From a Distance” by Bette Midler, “Hands Clean

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Ari Herzog

MAY 28, 2020

There is a bar in Elgin, Texas (about a half hour from Austin) that refuses entry to people who wear a mask. That’s not a typo. There are people of all ages who sunbathed on an Alabama beach without masks. Their reasons scare me. Today is May 28. On March 28, I wrote about the importance of wearing masks. A week later, I shared a long list of places to buy masks.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 16, 2020

I’m fascinated by people coming together in outdoor spaces, whether planned or spontaneous, and creating magical experiences. I was curious what sort of videos were recently uploaded that made me smile. Here’s a selection… Musicians in Germany. Neighbors in Italy. Neighbors in Canada. Neighbors in Florida. Neighbors in Utah. Musicians in Hungary.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 15, 2020

I haven’t entered a grocery store in nearly two months. Days before the Governor’s stay-at-home advisory here in Massachusetts, when the coronavirus was beginning to spread around the country, I remember feeling a heightened sense of awareness inside Target when a young child coughed several aisles away. I thought the worst: that the droplets emanating from the kid’s exhaled coughs would travel in my direction.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 12, 2020

It’s a constant struggle for me to find signals in a sea of social media noise. The coronavirus crisis throws a giant obstacle into my social following strategies because of two reasons: First, I don’t want to tune out people who I care about but I also don’t want my newsfeed filled with politics and sensationalism. I respect that my connections want to share that stuff but — similar to the irrelevant or repetitive advertising that appear in the newsfeed — I donR

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Ari Herzog

MAY 8, 2020

This is what Thoreau wrote in 1854: I don’t learn anything in the news. It’s the same content regurgitated with changed names and places. That’s boring. That’s a waste of my productivity. Instead, I visit Twitter and Reddit and peruse the trending topics. If something interests me, I click to read more information. I observe if the people I’m following are sharing the same content.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 7, 2020

“I perceive what I think, and therefore I am,” said Jewel , riffing the famous Descartes phrase, during a New York Times-hosted Zoom interview. She spoke for an hour from her Utah home as candles shone in the background. She led the audience in a meditation exercise, answered questions, and played guitar to perform her new song, “Grateful.” I took this candid screenshot.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 6, 2020

St. Catharine’s College and the University of Cambridge joined forces last month and created a list of 297 ideas to flatten the curve. It’s a massive undertaking and many of the ideas make a lot of sense — such as removing park benches and door handles. Other ideas might be viewed as controversial — such as encouraging employees to bring in their own lunch and eat at their desks instead of going out.

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 27, 2020

Recognizing that my news gathering system is working, I wanted to expand my selection criteria to include print media. Because it had been several years since I subscribed to magazines, and that I knew they were being circulated, I was curious what people recommended. I turned to Facebook. “Do you subscribe to any printed magazines or newspapers?

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 26, 2020

Since cutting the cord , I rarely see TV commercials on my Roku. CW Seed (where I watch old “Who’s Line is it Anyway?” episodes) has them. I’ve also seen ads when watching coronavirus programming, such as relief concerts and stay-at-home specials. I hope that the formula of TV commercials will change but for now, this is what they all resemble… Related Stories 141,900 Blue Boxes Hard Stop Where to Buy Masks Made in America Today.

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 23, 2020

Nearly every web page has links for people to click from page to page. It’s unfortunate that many online journalists, bloggers, and website owners don’t know how to create links. I wrote about this in 2008. Why is it still happening? It is important that online content creators know how optimize link text. They need to tell people about the link, and they need to tell search engines the relevance of the link.

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 17, 2020

When the pandemic began — and even before that when people ran amok and didn’t know what to do — I actively consumed the news. NPR, CNN, MSNBC, Slate. In hindsight, my actions led to high levels of stress and anxiety. I didn’t sleep well and didn’t eat much. I was grieving. One morning, I stopped everything. No more NPR.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 31, 2020

COVID-19 is here. . Many of my friends are frustrated at the lack of tests and some are afraid that they might get infected and be unable to get a test. When my Facebook news feed showed an acquaintance who tested negative, I reached out to him about writing a blog post to help soothe the frustrations and fears that I’d been hearing about in recent weeks.

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Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

That’s the philosophy of Christina Milanowski in a LinkedIn conversation about why people connect with each other on social media sites. She elaborates why she connects with people: “My rule of thumb [on LinkedIn] is that I’ve met them in person or connected with them in the past and I could remember how if asked,” adding that her Facebook friendship strategy is if she’d recognize the person on the street and say hi.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 4, 2018

Did you know that LinkedIn has 546 million users (with 146 million in the United States) and everyone has an average of 400 connections? Here are some statistics to impress your boss. I joined LinkedIn in February 2007 and I use it as a consumer and teacher. (Random fact: I was once hired after someone browsing comments liked mine.) Through these and other experiences, I’d like to think of myself as an expert on how to use the networking site.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 30, 2018

Mastodon, Pleroma, GNU Social, PeerTube, Friendica, and Hubzilla are among the more popular social networking services that collectively form the Fediverse. Each service has the ability for people to create their own gathering places, called instances. There are over 2,700 instances across the Fediverse that reach over 1 million people. By contrast, larger and older services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat only allow people who have accounts to message each other.

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Twitter bios are fascinating to read. Everyone has one. Each biography has a limit of 160 characters. Sometimes, I use keywords from the bio to compose an icebreaker introduction. Other times, especially if I’m familiar with the person’s tweets, I visit the bio to see if we share anything in common — or if it changed. I want to introduce you to some of the world’s quirkiest bios.

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Shortly after Inauguration Day, the Trump Administration issued a gag order to federal agencies to cease online communications and other media outreach until transition teams were in place. The White House is creating national unrest on multiple fronts. President Trump called climate change a “hoax” during his campaign. He signed an executive order eliminating funding to health groups that advise on abortions.

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 1, 2017

In response to the rising tide of fake news and misinformation, senior White House officials are approaching bloggers who may not have necessarily voted for the President to nevertheless work for the administration, counterpunch the naive, and promote verified stories. Tim DeGolden, a senior advisor to President Trump on new media and citizen journalism, believes this is a positive step. “Bloggers are influencers,” DeGolden said on Federal Online News Radio this week. “They hav

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 20, 2017

The purpose of LinkedIn , according to the company, is “to connect the world’s professionals to allow them to be more productive and successful. Our services are designed to promote economic opportunity for our members by enabling you and millions of other professionals to meet, exchange ideas, learn, and find opportunities or employees, work, and make decisions in a network of trusted relationships.” Trusted relationships.

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 27, 2017

My adventure began six years ago. I resisted online streaming for a long time. I liked my digital cable channel lineup. I borrowed movies from friends and checked out DVDs from the library. My final motivation was that my Comcast promotional package was about to expire and I’d have to pony up $100+ a month to keep my entertainment lifestyle. Recalling that my one-year-old Amazon Prime membership included access to a service called Amazon Instant Video as a competitor to Netflix, I quickly

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Ari Herzog

MAY 22, 2017

Paleo eating includes fruits and vegetables, nuts, and anything that had a heartbeat. No dairy. No grains. No refined or pasteurized foods. No additives. In other words, eat what the caveman would eat. Be a modern hunter-gatherer , not a later agriculturist. I joined the paleo revolution in July 2014 to lose belly fat and tone my abs. Exercise alone didn’t work.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 26, 2017

Here are some thoughts on simple living: Buy less and give more. Malcolm Forbes said, “He who dies with the most toys wins,” but he was wrong. Consumption and accumulation create clutter but not happiness. Decide what you don’t use anymore and give it away. That other phrase, “One person’s junk is another’s treasure” is more apropos.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 31, 2017

May 2017 marks the 10th birthday of my blog! It’s seen four URLs and numerous layouts. You can visit the archive and read my initial blog posts about apartment life, later posts about digital marketing, and ultimately about minimalism and productivity. For instance, here’s a piece from May 2007 critiquing a website. Today, I’d write that differently and include screenshots or a video.

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