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YouTube Pron

After reading how people make money from films they post to YouTube, I sat down and tried to write a comedy script for the...

Confessions to a Cruel Internet

Dear friend, I like to start my notes to you as if we're already in the middle of a conversation. That was a...

Scrawl Wars in a Virtual Land

Two and a half years ago, I started Halfthoughts by drawing on a metaphor. I compared blogging to cave art. In both...

21st Century Etiquette

Time was that if you wanted a manual for manners, you simply turned to a guide from Debrett's. With the rise of interweb...

Lily Allen: The New Arthur Scargill

Enjoy this blog as a podcast here or at iTunes. George Orwell wrote about Salvador Dali: "One ought to be able to hold in one's head...

Ideas: Worth Less, Worthless, or Worth Even More?

When the US was a young nation, it was greedy to learn and to grow. A good example is Benjamin Franklin a famous...

The Intellectual Crisis in Copying

Technology is an amazing thing. It makes you think. I do not mean it makes you think about how things work, though...

Digital Division: Brown’s Roadmap to Nowhere

This week saw the publication of the British Government's Digital Britain report. Whatever else it told us, it confirmed one thing: we are...

The New Properties of New Property

Arnold Schwarzenegger is a lefty, and he does not know it. Or maybe Arnie is one of those righty freedom fighters that end...

The 140 Rubaiyat: Poems for Twitter

The ruba'i is a poetic form of olden times, Lines 1, 2 & 4 must rhyme, Popular in Persia in the 11th Century, Most famously by Omar...

About Halfthoughts

This website showcases content created by Eric Priezkalns, who also uses the pen name Ray Blank when writing science fiction. It includes stories, essays, poems, short films and audio recordings.

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