To Twitter or Not Twitter - that is the question...
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Monday, June 08, 2009
Sunday, June 07, 2009
When is The Tipping Point for an author to go digital? | The Creative Penn
When is The Tipping Point for an author to go digital?
An article last week examined whether The Tipping Point has come for the publishing industry.
When is The Tipping Point for an author to go digital? | The Creative Penn
This subject keeps coming up.... the point at which e-books and print-on-demand become viable in the market place. The Creative Penn link was an interesting find on Twitter. [yes, I bit the dust and started using Twitter]
I already see print-on-demand as having a viable impact. I really think we are still a couple years away from universal acceptance of e-books.
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Friday, June 05, 2009
In the News
A few poetry items from around the Internet:
- Poetry of Rumi Spans Across Centuries, Cultures.
- Arabic poetry now embraces the humanist sentiment
- Poetry, like sex, is better felt than understood
- Them’s Fighting Verses
- Is there a corner for poetry?
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Thursday, June 04, 2009
Bing Search: 20th anniversary of Tienanmen Square protests - 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square Protests
Bing Search: 20th anniversary of Tienanmen Square protests - 20th Anniversary of Tienanmen Square Protests
More on Tienanmen Square Anniversary including more iconic pictures of "Tank Man"
More on Tienanmen Square Anniversary including more iconic pictures of "Tank Man"
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Snippets
"I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length."- John Ashbery
Chinese Government Blocks Twitter - Advertising Age - Global News
Chinese Government Blocks Twitter - Advertising Age - Global News: "Chinese Government Blocks Twitter
Run-up to 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square Blamed
Posted by Normandy Madden on 06.02.09 @ 02:55 PM
HONG KONG (AdAge.com) -- China's government has pulled the plug on yet another Western website, making Twitter unavailable to most users in mainland China since about 5 p.m. local time (5 a.m. in New York) and infuriating the local Twitterverse, which is already finding ways around the block.
The government has not publicly stated why it is blocking the site and doesn't usually comment on the actions of China's so-called net nanny, but it is widely assumed the government wanted to limit Twitter use before an important and controversial event -- the 20th anniversary of the government crackdown on student protests in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.
The authorities are also nervous about the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China coming up on Oct. 1, 2009."
Run-up to 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square Blamed
Posted by Normandy Madden on 06.02.09 @ 02:55 PM
HONG KONG (AdAge.com) -- China's government has pulled the plug on yet another Western website, making Twitter unavailable to most users in mainland China since about 5 p.m. local time (5 a.m. in New York) and infuriating the local Twitterverse, which is already finding ways around the block.
The government has not publicly stated why it is blocking the site and doesn't usually comment on the actions of China's so-called net nanny, but it is widely assumed the government wanted to limit Twitter use before an important and controversial event -- the 20th anniversary of the government crackdown on student protests in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.
The authorities are also nervous about the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China coming up on Oct. 1, 2009."
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
CORRECTION
I received the following e-mail in relation to an earlier post.
Dear Mr. Wells-
I won't presume to post my comment on your Stickpoet site, but I was surprised to see you refer to Dr. Goddard as a German. He was a Massachusetts boy, born and raised.
Your point about the correspondence between failures in poetry and rocketry, though, is well taken.
With my best regards-Guy
Well Guy, you are quite correct. As a child I was quite interested in rocketry and read a good deal about the pioneering of the early space program. Even as I was posting this the other night there was a nagging part of me that was thinking Goddard did not seem especially German in origin, but after more years than I care to admit, that was my recollection. It was in fact Dr. Wernher von Braun a rocket pioneer as well that I was thinking of. Von Braun was German but later became an American citizen and brought with him a wealth of knowledge that benefited America's early entry into space exploration. The problem is, that while I can straighten this much out I'm afraid I can no longer be certain to which of these two men this quote belongs. I tend to lean towards Goddard as originally designated, but I will attempt to clarify this in a subsequent post but for now, the matter of Goddard's birth and nationally is settled. As Guy acknowledged he is Massachusetts born and raised. Thus, quite American.
Guy seems content to let my connection to poetry and rocketry stand.
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