{"id":596,"date":"2014-12-11T11:34:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T17:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/?p=596"},"modified":"2014-12-11T12:01:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:01:26","slug":"five-things-im-following","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/five-things-im-following\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things I’m Following"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have to admit, I’m still figuring out social media, especially Twitter.\u00a0 I don’t think I’ll ever become a “Twitter personality”, in part because I focus a lot of what I “have to say” here on the blog, or don’t say publicly.\u00a0 Plus, when it comes to any issue I care about, by the time I reach Twitter, it’s been said better and smarter by someone else.<\/p>\n

I wouldn’t say I’m overly choosy about who I follow– on Twitter or elsewhere– but I don’t like a particularly crowded feed.\u00a0 So anyone I follow who is a high-volume poster, they better be posting things I want to read*, as well as things that I’m not likely to find elsewhere.\u00a0 Which is why I follow @saladinahmed<\/a> and @lisabolekaja<\/a>, who both post and re-tweet things that I, in my relatively sheltered life, might not otherwise be aware of.\u00a0 So I value getting their points of view.<\/p>\n

I’m also a big fan of @NussbaumAbigail<\/a>, partly for her twitter feed, but mostly for her blog Asking the Wrong Questions<\/a>.\u00a0 I don’t always agree with her points of view on things (though I think she’s spot-on when it comes to Battlestar Galactica), but I really enjoy reading her thoughts.<\/p>\n

Outside of the twitterverse, I’ve become mildly obsessed with John Green’s Crash Course<\/a><\/strong><\/em> on YouTube<\/a>, especially the World History episodes.\u00a0 Honestly, if you’re a writer doing any sort of large-scale worldbuilding, it’s a great, well, crash course in the basics of the rise of civilization.\u00a0 I mean, most of it was stuff I essentially knew, but getting a refresher in a charismatically presented package helped re-frame my thoughts.<\/p>\n

Finally, for something different and fun, I’m also a big fan of Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Scott and his wide array of musician friends take modern pop songs and reframe them in old and different styles.\u00a0 It’s like peeking into an alternate timeline.<\/p>\n

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\"10406377_10105415672690390_8126622644644978457_n\"<\/a>In other news: ARCs of Thorn of Dentonhill<\/strong><\/em> have arrived!\u00a0 I now have an actual, tangible THIS IS A REAL BOOK thing.\u00a0 I’m now almost completely sure that I’m not the victim of some super-elaborate prank.<\/p>\n

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*- I could tell you stories of the person I briefly followed who had set up a series of twenty-odd randomized autotweets plugging her books. Every day, three to five times a day, one of the same “BUY MY BOOK!” tweets. DON’T DO THIS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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