Robert Creeley’s Was That A Real Poem Or Did You Just Make It Up Yourself.
Just Sayin’ is to radio what Twitter is to newsprint,” said Gervais. “Making the human voice a natural part of any social web experience is the next big thing. Voice as a monologue is narcissistic, voice as a dialogue is social; social media is a place where people desire to be both.
Because I’m always saying to myself, “I wish Twitter felt more like checking my voicemail.”
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Cecilia Giménez, the Spanish woman who really messed up when she tried to restore a 19th-century fresco of Jesus, now wants a piece of the action from the 2,000 or so euros ($2,600) her church has collected from tourists coming to see the ruined artwork. Spain’s El Correo reports, according to Gawker’s translation, that the 80 -year-old Giménez has hired lawyers to make her case. A court battle is expected. Ars Technica says the church has also lawyered up.
I think elegy is an inevitable outcome of utopia. I do think I have a sense of belatedness, of always having arrived a little too late. I think it’s a very common American characteristic going back to our earliest times – always feeling you missed it by a little bit!Having grown up in a kind of utopia myself, and having seen that utopia fade, having been part of all that, has made me sensitive or alert to the inherent melancholy of utopian ideas.
a new bloggy home
The good folks at The American Conservative have been kind enough, and unwise enough, to give me a place to blog. I am very grateful. I will continue to post here, but probably not quite as often — though I will link to my blog posts, for those who might find that convenient. Basically, over there I will link to many of the kinds of things that I link to here, only adding more of my own commentary and allowing for conversation in the comments. I leave it to you to determine whether all that is good or … whatever. Cheers!
Unfortunately, these few niceties can’t make up for the fact that Twitter took nearly everything that was original or innovative about the app and threw it out with the bath water. This app used to be a perfect example of what was useful and unique about the iPad and its bigger screen — but now feels like little more than a blown-up iPhone app. To see Twitter crack down on the utility and feasibility of third-party options and simultaneously ruin its showcase app on the most popular tablet in the world is a hard pill to swallow.