Letter to MySpace: We had a good thing, once.

On August 1, 2007, I broke up with my employer. There’s another post in me on that point, and it has something to do with why I haven’t posted here in exactly that long. But for now, I need to talk about MySpace. Because today, I broke up with her, too.

And it’s not because I was down-sizing my social relationships. In fact, I’ve upsized — at least in raw numbers. No, I broke up with MySpace because… well… I think she’s been cheating on me.

She hasn’t sent me a substantive message in months. All I get, every single day, are messages from other people she’s seeing, people hawking their bodily goods online, wanting to be my BFF. There was a time, not long ago, where people from my deepest past would find me on MySpace, would reach out to me, touch me in some new way. Not so, any longer.

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Cadence ProjectMaster 4.0 Online

Full Disclosure Here: I’m a former employee of Cadence Management Corporation, and I’m also a contractor. Plus, I genuinely like the folks who work there, and I think they do good things. That said…I’m working on a voice over for the Cadence ProjectMaster 4.0 Online software demo. It’s about 10 minutes of me talking over a screencast of the tool, demonstrating how it works, walking through the features and so on. As such, they’ve given me access to the real deal online to test features so that I can create the script. This. Thing. Is. Fantastic.

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