Posted in Social media, Tagging on July 24, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve noticed a significant reduction in the use of tags on company blogs. Why? Part of it might be explained by the automatic production of tags for each category in the dominant platforms, WordPress and TypePad/MoveableType. But what else explains it? Inelegance of presentation? I like tags because I am promiscuous in my use of [...]
Posted in Social media, Society & Politics on July 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I have accused others of being Pollyannas for their prophesying of ahistorical sea-changes in human nature based on innovations in communications technologies. (”E-commerce will eliminate poverty,” “Blogging will replace journalism,” etc.) But I have to admit to a certain amount of it myself. At one point I conceived the following project.
The Open Source Israel-Palestine Peace [...]
Posted in Health on July 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
From Mr. Cad.
Since I’ve posted my experiences with horrifying dentists, I should mention a couple of awesome ones: Dr. Dan Marut of Ashland. He’s a great diagnostician and very adept at making a patient comfortable. Dr. Tian Xia Eugene is the Michael Jordan of endodendohamnahaamna. Once he started in on me it couldn’t have taken [...]
Posted in Poetry on July 21, 2007 | No Comments »
The day crawls by on pins and needles,
Prickly with heat, as grey with tedium
As a parking lot, as empty as
The prayers of middle management.
Of such days our lives are made
And of such lives the world. But Tuesday
I had such a vision as to
Almost justify it all.
In the sand beyond Palmyra,
Lucinda playing in the truck,
A [...]
Posted in Archaeology, Egypt, History on July 16, 2007 | No Comments »
From the Theban Mapping Project website.
Update: There’s been a significant update to the Theban Mapping Project.
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Modern technology? Eh. It’s poetry I’m after. But there are times, rare certainly, when the meshing of computer technology and the humanities is nothing less than elegant. The most recent example of this is in Egyptology. It’s worth [...]
Posted in Social media on July 12, 2007 | No Comments »
One of the dangers of social media use professionally is inertia. You find what you need, what works for you and you wear an ass-groove into the seat. Can’t afford to do that so I jumped face first into Twitter, which has turned out to be funner than I thought it would be, less vampiric [...]
Posted in Social media on July 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Despite my earlier WTF, I’m going to give this Twitter you kids are so crazy about a spin. Marvel at my Twitteriness. If you know me and you’re Twitteriffic, let me know. I wonder how much Twitter has been used internationally for both news and human rights reporting?
Twitter, social_media
Posted in Poetry on July 2, 2007 | No Comments »
As poetry approaches philosophy it fails,
Its little voice bewildered as it falls,
For poetry’s nothing more than us, with sails,
And what on earth could we know after all?
So many proclamations in the dust,
So many pretty corpses in the slough,
Of revelations that had come to us
Like lovers, bright redemption when they’re new,
But when they go, who fill [...]
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