The North Carolina Arboretum (http://www.ncarboretum.org/)
Sunset at the Arboretum
Month: June 2008
Caffeinated poem
Caffeinated poem: A few weeks ago I had compiled a set of poems to submit to various poetry contests including Boston Review. But I was reading Robert Pinsky’s book Gulf Music and never sent them. It’s not that I forgot to send them. It is just that compared to Robert Pinsky, my poems appear un-submittable. So instead I wrote a poem on a paper cup after drinking a latte from The Dripolator.
Tumblr. – The Documentary.
The Knife metaphor
“Blogs shouldn’t be work”
As newspapers, including mine, have begun to take a nosedive, the powers that be have decided that blogs must pay. The numbers (hits) are watched incessantly, and increasing them has become the criterion for survival, not just of the blog itself, but of the writer behind it. In a real sense, the blog has become an albatross, or a target painted on my chest. If I didn’t have one, no one would be looking at those blog numbers – they’d be looking at other numbers, true, but there’d be no pressure on the blog. There’s the rub: a blog with pressure becomes work, and blogs shouldn’t be work.
—Timothy Mangan1
NOTES:
1) Richard Chang, Paul Hodgins and Timothy Mangan, “To Blog or Not to Blog,” May 25, 2008, ARTSJOURNAL weblog, accessed June 5, 2008, https://www.artsjournal.com/npac/2008/05/to-blog-or-not-to-blog.html
The therapeutic value of blogging
writing activates a cluster of neurological pathways…. people coping with cancer diagnoses and other serious conditions are increasingly seeking—and finding—solace in the blogosphere. “Blogging undoubtedly affords similar benefits” to expressive writing, says Morgan, who wants to incorporate writing programs into supportive care for cancer patients.
Jessica Wapner, Scientific American1
NOTES:
1) Jessica Wapner, “Blogging–It’s Good for You,” June 1, 2008, Scientific American, accessed June 5, 2008, http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-healthy-type
Coffeehouse Junkie 