after a weekend diet from sns, i’ve plugged into the matrix… i’ve missed so much & yet i’ve missed so little…
Field notes
// spent the day in the garden until the rain ceased garden work… attended a going away party (far too many people are moving away)…
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oh, insomnia, thanks for putting the recent issue of the american poetry review in my mailbox today-gives me something to read at 1am…
// she says, ‘most people don’t want to think & when you challenge their ideas they take it personally.’ i say, ‘what does that make me?’
// ambiance, automation & emergence (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/three_models_of_value_in_the_real_time_web.php)… discuss…
// i’d rather be reading hafiz; ‘we should make all spiritual talk simple today’ (http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780143037811-0)
// at lunch, coworker says i’m anti-everything… i’m not anti-everything, i’m just not a lemming… & i need to work on my people skills…
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it’s raining… pouring, actually… really pouring… with thunder & lightning…
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did i mention the waitress at fiddlin pig did not call me ‘honey’ or ‘darlin?’ today she called me ‘baby…’ yes, i’ll have another coke…
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a line from pound comes to mind, ‘you ought rather to rule than serve…’ in context it has many meanings… i’m still unpacking them…
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coworker just dropped off a stack of books by cynthia rylant for the kidlingers… the illustrations are great…
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is it possible to have meaningful, lasting friendships with coworkers…
Google’s Book Scanning Machine Revealed
// was asked this weekend if i still blog: yes, no, blogging is so 2004… blogging is not publishing, publishing is not blogging…
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
C.S. Lewis
// just returned from the BMCM+AC poetry reading wordfest event… two hours until the next reading at jubilee…
// drunk on sufi poetry from the reading/performance by Thomas Rain Crowe & Coleman Barks… the hangover should be delicious…
// so when the asheville police showed up at the bobo gallery, i told j- d- ‘now this is what i call a poetry reading’ …
Newspapers daily circulation declines
According to ABC, for 395 newspapers reporting this spring, daily circulation fell 7% to 34,439,713 copies, compared with the same March period in 2008.
Jennifer Saba, E&P1
NOTES:
1) Jennifer Saba, “New FAS-FAX Shows (More) Steep Circulation Losses,” April 27, 2009, Editor & Publisher Magazine, accessed May 26, 2009, http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003966601 (page no longer available)
// you’re a coworker, not my friend. happy friday…
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my library fine is over eight dollars… maybe i should just buy the book…
How greenhouse gas does the IT industry generate?
“the global IT industry generated as much greenhouse gas as the world’s airlines – about 2% of global CO2 emissions” (via the times)1
NOTES:
1) The Sunday Times, accessed April 28, 2009, http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5489134.ece (page no longer available)
How Big Is Magazine’s Carbon Footprint?
“Each month’s issue of DISCOVER in this process, transportation included, releases the equivalent of 170 tons of CO2 , whereas recycled magazines—only a small portion of the total—produce about 6 tons. Beyond reducing greenhouse gases, recycling saves about 1,000 pounds of solid waste, some 10,000 gallons of water, and 17 million Btu of energy per ton of paper. Furthermore, two tons of trees per ton of paper remain standing due to recycling”1
NOTES:
1) Jennifer Barone, Amber Fields, Karen Rowan, and Jessica Marshall, “How Big Is DISCOVER’s Carbon Footprint?” April 21, 2008, Discover Magazine, accessed April 28, 2009, https://www.discovermagazine.com/how-big-is-discovers-carbon-footprint-16252
Is print media dead?
“Newspapers must become digital enterprises, even if they choose to continue to print on some days or on every day of the week” (via Martin Langeveld) 1 2
NOTES:
1) Michael Josefowicz, “The Fallacy of the ‘Print Is Dead’ Meme,” April 27, 2009, Mediashift, accessed April 28, 2009, https://mediashift.org/2009/04/the-fallacy-of-the-print-is-dead-meme117/
2) Martin Langeveld, “Newspapers must grow their online news market share. Can they?,” April 16, 2009, Nieman Lab, accessed April 6, 2026, https://www.niemanlab.org/2009/04/newspapers-must-grow-their-online-news-market-share-can-they/
Coffeehouse Junkie 