In essence, [blogging/blog platforms are] a straightforward content-management system that posts updates in reverse-chronological order and allows comments and other social interactions.
Viewed as such, blogging may “die” in much the same way that personal-digital assistants (PDAs) have died. A decade ago, PDAs were the preserve of digerati who liked using electronic address books and calendars. Now they are gone, but they are also ubiquitous, as features of almost every mobile phone.
From TwinCities.com:
Success didn’t come without hard work for Boss, a former St. Paulite who lives in the White Bear Lake area.
He sent poems to Poetry magazine for 15 years before it accepted one. During one “desperate time” in his busy life, he wrote from 2 to 4 a.m., then went back to bed until 6 a.m.
Boss describes himself as a folk poet whose work is accessible.
// Reading Beth Ann Fennelly’s piece in the American Poetry Review.
// Off to run some morning errands.
From the Guardian:
UbuWeb, the magnificent – and enormous – archive of the avant garde has, in one of its many curious corners, an online project glorying in the name Publishing the Unpublishable.
It’s not a great year
Doubleday Publishing Lays Off 10% of Its Employees – NYTimes.com (via fluffynotes)
// Listening to a lecture on Classical Mythology, and still pondering a question about Pollack.
// Pollack. I’m thinking about Pollack tonight.
// “Late one night, sorrow come round/ Scratchin’ at my door… ” Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson
// Back home from a full, energetic evening class.
// Someone in the meeting told me I’m not suppose to miniblog a meeting in which I’m supposed to be paying attention to said meeting.
// In a meeting about podcasting and multimedia whatnot.
// Route 8, running hot. Route 6, minutes late. Route 28 on time. Still made it to the office before the meeting.
// Off to the bus stop to brave the October blizzard.
// Flurries (that means snow to Southern states).
// From iTunes: “Dear Podcast Owner: Your podcast… has been approved. You should expect to see it in iTunes within the next few hours.”
The first weekly Coffeehouse Junkie podcast has been submitted to Apple iTunes.
// Podcast successfully submitted to iTunes.
// Fixing RSS feed via (http://feedvalidator.org/)
// Waiting for RSS validating
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