Two Visions of the Infinite in Seattle

I. Behind the Ivar’s
I stood above the wet percussion,
Above the weak applause of dying waves
On algae-covered pilings
Whose trunks sought seabed
In the spiky bloom of urchins.
I sank below the Sound and swayed
Like seaweed stroking broken figures
Down beside the fallen lighthouse.
But here no agate and quicksilver mix,
In this liquefaction of obsidian.
I skimmed across the cleft glass of [...]

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Going to NetSquared, Gonna Grow a Crop of Dental Floss, Gonna Be a Non-Profit Dental Floss Tycoon

I’ll be at the NetSquared Conference, apparently.
Technorati Tags: NetSquared, Blogswana, net2
Curt Hopkins

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Granada Visit

My friend Maximova is descending on Granada, Spain in June and will stay there until the end of August. She’s going to be working on a documentary about flamenco dance and will be hauling along her director of photography and possibly an assistant. If anyone has suggestions for reasonably priced accommodations for the summer in [...]

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All Things Web Two Point Faux

The exhaustive, definitive list of every Web 2.0 company that does not yet exist. (Work in progress.)
Spleef
Xam
iTruculence
Smoogles
iFeebl
Trumm
Smoochy
eBaffled
Konky
eFreezr
Nozzler
Tooboolr
Binnacle
eLbow
Drizzlr
Teen Weenis
Flancaster
Podcruster
CapStan
Logbundler
Satanax
Chiliphone
Ozark Jimmy

Tags: Web_2.0_names, Web_two_point_faux, company_names, Web2.0, OZJ, Ozark_Jimmy, Chiliphone
Curt Hopkins

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The Committee to Protect Bloggers Says Goodbye

Sixteen months ago I founded the Committee to Protect Bloggers. The Committee acted as a clearing house for information on threatened bloggers and advocated for their lives, liberty and freedom of expression. In the time since, the Committee helped to raise the public profile of bloggers in repressive regimes through coordinated online action, press outreach, [...]

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Enough is Enough: The New Zimbabwean Democracy Super-Blog

I want to turn your attention to an interesting new project called, “Enough is Enough.” Enough is Enough is a blog devoted to news and analysis of the African country of Zimbabwe, from the inside out.

Once the “breadbasket of Africa,” in recent decades, under the increasingly tyrannical rule of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe has become a [...]

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Envoi—Of Legendary Time

From the last chapter of The Civil War in Spain, “Envoi—Of Legendary Time” by Ralph Bates.
“I felt the past as a living thing, the pastness of which I regretted.”
“I felt then that the sense of the passing of time and of past time was one of the principal sources of poetry.”
“The melancholy of past time [...]

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Blogswana: Botswana, AIDS and Blogging

UPDATE: a Blogswana project blog has been created.

Blogging For Others
Brian Schartz and I are embarking on a new project, under the auspices of the Committee to Protect Bloggers. It’s called Blogswana and it is a project to increase HIV/AIDS education in the African country of Botswana through blogging.
A little background: I was unable to go [...]

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Marshall K of the Social Software Weblog and NetSq…

Marshall K of the Social Software Weblog and NetSquared and I will be in Seattle Monday visiting Trumba. We will be hanging out at the Rendezvous at 8:00 p.m. if anyone would like to join us.
meetup, Seattle, Rendezvous, Committee_to_Protect_Bloggers, Social_Software_Weblog, NetSquared, Curt_Hopkins, Marshall_Kirkpatrick, Morpheme_Tales
Curt Hopkins

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The Poisoned Field

Too many feet have mucked the field up
For anything, including weeds, to grow.
Still, like prisoners they tramp the mud,
With downcast eyes they cross the yard in rows.
Long ago we played this soil out,
We overcultivated out of greed,
Drew out the birthing ichor from the ground
Until the sterile soil spurned the seed.
Let us turn our back on [...]

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