One stormy day …

I just finished reading, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson. I thoroughly enjoyed and recommend the book. There are many things that fascinate me about the man, but his general cleverness and adaptability got me thinking about how his approach and style would overlay with today’s world. I think he would take all we have to offer in stride, and then improve on it. He’d get used to the concepts of the computer and the Internet and start using them with a vengeance.

I’d been looking for a topic for an expository HubPage, and there it was. Ben’s lifestyle was a metaphor for the Internet. So I posited the query, “did Ben Franklin invent the Internet?” It has been well received and that has encouraged me about HubPages possibilities. HubPages is still looking for its public voice. Maybe it is going to work for exposition pieces with a little style: whitepapers, policy papers, mission statements, lobbying pages, letters to the public,?. You can pretty readily whip up a paper with text and graphics to form a one-page presentation. Dunno, but it’s a thought.  Check out my Ben paper and let me know what you think about it and about HubPages.