Month: January 2009

A lot of good links, but it might cause you to use your old bean to read and digest the discussion.

Poetry and Relevance

Blogs survive as scavengers

News-gathering is expensive. (Read previous posts on this theme here (The (read) sky (between) is (the) falling (lines)) and here (Pornographers don’t sell pornography).) That’s why I present this from Simon Dumenco for AdAge.com:
“unlike Salon, which… pays for its content, HuffPo [HuffingtonPost] has an ethically questionable content-generation scheme: It doesn’t pay most of its bloggers at all. Worse, it sometimes even lifts content wholesale from other sites that do pay for their own content…” (http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=133541)

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browsing through a copy of The American Poetry Review and Poetry (both arrived yesterday) while drinking a big cup coffee.

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just finished watching a couple episodes of Marty Stouffer’s Wild America with the kidlingers

Book blogs are the enemy of reading

Book blogs are the enemy of reading. I discovered several such fascinating blogs this year and spent hours enamored of reading, listing the books I wanted to read, and reading others’ lists. Imagine my surprise when I realized that I had frittered away precious reading time staring at a computer screen. Apparently I was getting all the warm, fuzzy, readerly feelings without the commitment of turning pages. Sad. (via brilynne)1

NOTES:
1) brilynne, “Reading 2008,” December 31, 2008, briary.blogspot.com, accessed January 1, 2009, https://briary.blogspot.com/2008/12/reading-2008.html