How to stay relevant, by Mark Morford

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Technofreaky whipsaw culture leaving you in the e-dust? Try this
By Mark Morford

Did you think I was going to say Twitter? Tell you to join Facebook? Maybe urge you to start an obscure blog and join arcane forums over at ARS Technica and then launch a podcast in which you rant about, say, the Wall Street Journal's cute new SpeakEasy blog, where you enjoy posting anonymous comments about how the world needs another aggregate culture blog written by conservative white New York elites about as much as we need, well, conservative inbred white New York elites?

Nope. I am not going to do that. And not merely because I'm currently taking on more freelance work and am reasonably sure I could help SpeakEasy with its unfortunate lack-of-anything-to-say problem.

Or maybe you thought I was going to say, hey, why not get yourself a full sleeve tattoo? Maybe a giant Koi fish wrapped around a coupla grinning skulls eating a flock of Monarch butterflies, just before you go off to start your own iPhone app company because, well, all the cool kids seem to be doing exactly something like that?

Well, I am not going to do that either. Not entirely, anyway. That comes later. ...

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