Ari Herzog

JULY 29, 2020

My first tweet from @ariherzog was on September 30, 2009 but I can’t link to it because it’s not there. It’s probably accessible in the Wayback Machine or from archived search engine crawls — but it’s erased from Twitter’s servers. (I initially joined Twitter on April 5, 2007 but I can’t link to that either because that account was deleted in 2009.).

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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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JULY 8, 2020

Four months ago, Ed Yong, a staff writer at The Atlantic , wrote a 5,453-word essay about the end of the pandemic. While many of his medical, scientific, and economic perspectives likely need updating (such as the President’s then-popularity), there are two concepts that struck me. First, he wrote about what we should expect. “After 9/11, the world focused on counterterrorism.

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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 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 8, 2020

Five days after the presidential inauguration in 2017 when the media was presented with claims of fake news and alternative facts, former GQ political commentator Keith Olbermann preached about the lunacy of the new occupier-in-chief. The first three minutes of his web video are gold, including the following advice to every media outlet: “Stop covering his speeches live.

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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

JUNE 1, 2020

The chant started innocently with four words from one or two people. “Tuesday is Jews’ Day!” As I recall my introduction to anti-Semitism in seventh grade , about a dozen classmates rode with me on the 10-minute bus ride every Tuesday afternoon from our suburban middle school to the local synagogue for our Hebrew School studies. The chant began on the second or third week with presumed recognition that there were suddenly Jewish kids on the school bus.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 31, 2020

I am curating a YouTube playlist of songs and poems that evoke the history, culture, and resilience of this country. It’s a selective list and I want it to be devoid of politicization. I want to include pieces that make me laugh, cry, or think. The list currently has five videos. It will grow over time. “Somewhere in America” is in the list.

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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 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 11, 2020

“I can’t fathom reading a book without tactile sensations of turning pages and smelling paper,” I wrote 10 years ago. I feel the same today. I’m not alone. “The book lover loves to have a record of what they’ve read, and it’s about signaling to the rest of the world. It’s about decorating your home, it’s about collecting, I guess, because people are completists aren’t they, they want to have that to indicate about themselves.” Meryl Halls, managing director of the U

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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

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 22, 2020

Here are my 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

APRIL 21, 2020

If I was advising Joe Biden on how to increase engagement with the American people, I’d suggest the following four things be done as soon as possible. First: Publicly apologize to Anita Hill and indicate policy changes. Women are upset their only choice to unseat the incumbent is to vote for Joe. They deserve better. Last April, Hill explained to the New York Times why she was “deeply unsatisfied” by his private apology and what needs to occur.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 27, 2020

COVID-19 tracking websites have grown in popularity in recent weeks to show you real-time data about the coronavirus spread. Each website provides what’s known as a dashboard, or a grouping of explicit data in the form of maps, charts, lists, etc. that collectively work together to show you information. Each website details how many people are confirmed to have COVID-19, how many people are seriously ill from the disease, how many people recovered, and how many people died.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 28, 2020

Science Magazine published a fascinating interview with the director of the Chinese CDC. When asked about global mistakes in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, he says: The big mistake in the U.S. and Europe, in my opinion, is that people aren’t wearing masks. This virus is transmitted by droplets and close contact. Droplets play a very important role—you’ve got to wear a mask, because when you speak, there are always droplets coming out of your mouth.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 30, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is bringing out the best in our creativity and innovations, and I want to share 29 things you can do today to bring awesomeness into your life. 1. Borrow one of 1.4 million digital books from the National Emergency Library for free. (Here’s a story about it.). 2. Order books for delivery from bookstore websites. Powell’s Books is one of many bookstores that hired staff to help with demand. 3.

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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

APRIL 3, 2020

Have you seen any television commercials in recent days? Here are some of my favorites, courtesy of iSpot.tv. (You can click that link, by the way, to see every below ad and dozens more that have something to do with COVID-19, caring for each other, and hoping for a better future.). I don’t remember the last time I ate at Burger King, but this ad portrays what every national restaurant chain should do.

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 4, 2020

It doesn’t matter how long I stay off Facebook, for whenever I return I see different people posting the same stuff. This is a list of 10 bands I saw in concerts and one band that I didn’t see. Guess which is a lie. Here are 100 movies and which ones I saw. Here are 100 TV shows and which ones I saw. Add a picture from your camera that has the color orange.

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 4, 2020

It doesn’t matter how long I stay off Facebook, for whenever I return I see different people posting the same stuff. This is a list of 10 bands I saw in concerts and one band that I didn’t see. Guess which is a lie. Here are 100 movies and which ones I saw. Here are 100 TV shows and which ones I saw. Add a picture from your camera that has the color orange.

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 3, 2020

Have you seen any television commercials in recent days? Here are some of my favorites, courtesy of iSpot.tv. (You can click that link, by the way, to see every below ad and dozens more that have something to do with COVID-19, caring for each other, and hoping for a better future.). I don’t remember the last time I ate at Burger King, but this ad portrays what every national restaurant chain should do.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 18, 2020

I went for a walk today. The sun was shining with a clear blue sky. It was about 55 degrees. I saw people of all ages walking, running, and bike riding. Some people were in their yards and raked the leaves. I saw two kids play football in a neighborhood park. I saw a girl practice lacrosse swings in the driveway. I watched birds fly and I heard them tweet from the tops of houses and trees.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 17, 2020

The new normal. That’s what I’m calling this new era of mankind when the world is at war with a microscopic coronavirus disease called COVID-19. The virus is infecting a lot of people. Most recover. Some don’t. The virus is nearly everywhere. Antarctica is (currently) a safe haven on our planet. Let’s hope it stays that way. I created this blog in 2007 as a means for me to initially write about everything that was in my head and that I wanted to get out.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 15, 2018

“A legal lawsuit has been issued against you and a warrant has been issued for your arrest,” the robotic voice said when I picked up my ringing phone. It was a New York number. “Call this number immediately before legal action is taken.” I immediately recognized the scam. First, if police want to arrest me, they’re not going to call me about it.

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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

MAY 29, 2018

The earliest fossil evidence for anatomically modern Homo sapiens dates back 300,000 years. Do you think your ancestors cared about eating, drinking, and sleeping schedules? Or, is it more likely they ate when hungry, drank when thirsty, and slept when tired? Your ancestors might agree on the benefits of drinking water , but they’d also agree about the lack of scientific evidence to drink an arbitrary number of glasses of water every day.

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APRIL 4, 2018

I started blogging in 2004 on a LiveJournal site when I wrote about everything under the sun. It was an online diary. A true web log of my thoughts. I’m thinking of going back to that kind of blogging, to be free of topical constraints. However, I recognize that I’ll never grow a target audience unless (most of) my writing is focused. If so, what to focus on?

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