As I decompress from a tech conference—a dizzying few days of true Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook, blogging overload that I absolutely loved—I am especially looking forward to unplugging this weekend as a part of the “Sabbath Manifesto” (tagline: “Slowing down lives since 2010″). Sabbath Manifesto is sort of a “secular Sabbath,” a national day of unplugging [...]

Dear Thyroid provides a very unique kind of support for patients of thyroid diseases and thyroid cancers. As opposed to other support communities that might just list some facts and put you in touch with other people in the same situation, Dear Thyroid offers their readers a literary outlet for writing about their experiences.
A few [...]

When I describe someone, I typically explain the usuals: he’s short, has brown eyes, a round belly, and has balding and graying black hair. Anyone who knows him would know that I’m describing my dad. I probably wouldn’t say that he has a voice akin to a rough and tumble Santa or that his sneezes [...]

Turning 30 is a terrifying thing for a lot of people. As such, year 29 carries quite a bit of weight. So why not do something special to remember your life before the transition into 30dom?
That is exactly what artist Nicole Kenney has done with her personal story project, diary29. That magical number, 29, also [...]

I don’t think I’m alone when I say that I don’t write nearly as many thank you notes as I should. For whatever reason, the practice of taking the time to craft a handwritten letter of appreciation seems to have fallen out of practice for most people.
Maybe we should all take a lesson from blogger [...]

Regular readers of the Editor’s Blog might remember our Six-Word Story contest for Significant Objects: the online project that pairs cheap thrift store finds with notable writers who then create a fictional back story to be posted alongside that item in an eBay charity auction.
Well Significant Objects is back with another round of objects and [...]

Filmmaker David Lynch had a pretty straightforward idea with Interview Project: send a camera crew across the United States and back, randomly stopping to interview whoever looks interesting on the way about their lives. However, the results so far have been nothing short of fascinating. The video interviews posted on Interview Project are really remarkable [...]

Every item you’ve ever come across has a story. These objects clutter our shelves, closets, garages and lives; they sit and collect dust until one day we drop them on the 2-for-1 table at a yard sale, or for the more ambitious among us, to that great virtual flee market called eBay. Weathered, chipped and [...]

Personal ads are strange when you really think about them. While on one hand they are these short, to-the-point advertisements, they are also really intimate in that they come from people searching to make some kind of personal connection with another human being.
This is the subject explored in De-Classified: The Human Condition. Conceived by photographer Mark [...]

I’m a world record setter. I’m better at something than anyone else. I’ve got the video to prove it.
Last week, I participated in a World Record Appreciation Society event in New York City. My record? Most Six-Word Quotes Read in Under One Minute (note: not memoirs, but quotes from lit, flicks, famous folks). That [...]