Formalist challenge of Twitter

12.01.09

Now I find I'm approaching Twitter like a formalist poet who likes to have the imagination provoked by the restrictions of a given form. You only get 17 syllables, or the next line must rhyme, or there must be a recognizable rhythm, etc. As you face the restriction, you see novel solutions, things you wouldn't have said, or said that way, otherwise. Two tries: Quoted: "People congratulated me when my son was born, but I worried even then. He will be drafted in 8 years....







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Pages (academic) never meant to be read

15.08.09

The epigraph from a new book on Shakespeare by Clinton Heylin: The greatest advantage of Shakespearean studies seems to be that questions may be asked over and over again, and that almost nobody pays attention to the answers — unless he borrows them for his own use in an article or a book. — HYDER E. ROLLINS, 1944

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Moving day

01.11.09

It's official, I guess. I'm moving on over to a little more modern blogging software. The new site is: akaKenSmith.com (...also known as...) pMachine, you've been a gem.

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Pirates and social media

15.08.09

Innovative collaborations? Movement of information across the world via new technology? Exchanges between groups previously unable to work together? New jobs created by access to new information? Disruptions of market values due to new forces and actors? Sure, but are we talking about pirates here? Yes. See the later paragraphs of Chana Joffe-Walt's 5/22/09 story, "After A Pirate Negotiation,...

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Silencing the stakeholders

15.08.09

One way to make clear the power of social media is to identify the thing that is broken without it. Clay Shirky, I'm guessing, might speak about creating the opportunity to coordinate a group that can't easily act in concert, or to call to the microphone a group that usually can't speak on its own behalf. I noticed in a 5/11 letter to the NY Times from Celina Su a classic circumstance where a group...

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