Posted in Bob Folder, Superintelligent sea cucumbers, tagged bobfolder superintelligent_sea_cucumbers poetry drama t on November 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Bob Folder, the World’s Greatest Poet
As I hardly need to tell you, the greatest poet and dramatist the world has ever known is not Shakespeare or Edmund Spencer. It is, instead, Oregon’s own Bob Folder. Although Bob is super old, he has never stood still. He goes with the flow. Man. And the flow is [...]
Posted in Poetry, tagged Cavafy poet Julian on November 16, 2007 | No Comments »
Update: Toiling away on an essay I’m calling “Denying Julian.” Manuel Savidis has featured my poem “Reading Cavafy” on the Cavafy Archive’s “Cavafy on the Web” section. Quite an honor.
I was re-reading Cavafy’s collected poems for the third time and began to notice a number of poems about Julian the Apostate. I found the following [...]
Posted in Social media, tagged social_media conversation on November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve begun to realize that social media is not as social, on a personal level, as I had originally thought it was. Most people do not leave comments on other people’s blogs, or respond to them when they’re left on theirs. In Twitter @ statements are rarely answered except when the author is a close [...]
Posted in Poetry, tagged poetry metrical cavafy on November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I throw out history like I throw away
The business section, sports, the classifieds,
Or, sorting through the basket full of bills,
I throw away the many advertisements.
I only wish to read the urgent pages,
Epistles of remembrance and regret,
Immediate chronicles of losses that become,
In noting them, a kind of joy. In short,
Anything that fetishizes loss
And is spoken [...]
Posted in Marketing, Social media, tagged social_media blogging corporate marketing on November 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
If you agree with one of the following statements, your company does not need to, or should not, use social media.
You hold a monopoly on your goods or services and that monopoly is unlikely to be challenged.
You are successfully employing traditional marketing and public relations strategies and can afford to continue doing so.
Your customers are [...]
Posted in Games, tagged games_industry video_games gamers social_media survey on November 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For my work, I have created an extensive survey of how video game players around the world use social media. As far as I know, it’s the first of its kind. It only takes 10 minutes to fill out and, when it’s concluded, we’re going to publish the results. It goes without saying, I hope, [...]
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