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Sometimes I Get a Good Feeling

It’s a known affair, but today I can’t help but comment on the strange inspiration I find in the convoluted world of social media and everything digital.  A few days ago, I posted this: 

That was after I heard the song Maps on David’s blog, which referenced the Ann Arbor SoundCloud local post (written by Jami aka Seams). Chris sent me a thank-you tweet and suddenly I felt a rush of understanding why creators and consumers alike feel a deep love for companies like SoundCloud.  

Perhaps it’s the constantly fluctuating nature of my own attention to any given influence - friends, professional or personal interests, the companies that I love and listen to (sometimes literally) that makes this seem at once direct, yet distant. Though we are constantly in reach of all the music, media, art, literature, (etc., etc.,) that could be meaningful to us, it continues to amaze me when a direct connection is made between any combination of creator, influencer or consumer. The digital world is ever-more resembling, mapping even, the world we live in - the animate and dirty yet mathematical organic world. 

There are already many, many formats and iterations of social media services for personal expression and many others for curation, transmission and consumption. I believe that as the Internet and its companies grow and evolve, service usage will expand and contract on an individual basis. Each individual one is an entry point from which comments fly into the messy, wonderful digital sphere and land somewhere.

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