WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Web/Tech

August 22, 2006

Why social software is good for introverts

The Power of Many points to an intriguing post at 12 frogs, of particular interest to introverts: … Thanks to LibraryThing (now with Groups!) and Flickr, my books and photographs have more of a social life than I do. I like things this way. It may seem counterintuitive to extroverts, but social software works for… Continue reading

Blogging, Personal, Photos 2006, Web/Tech

Blogging, extrovert, introvert, social software
August 18, 2006

Vox: the personal journal solution?

I’ve been playing a bit with Vox, TypePad’s new LiveJournal for grownups; or blog platform and social networking service; or half a blogging platform for newbies (albeit with rich and deep functionality) and half social network. I’ve seen some huffiness somewhere (I forget where) about insulting folks with references to newbies and grandmas, but I… Continue reading

Blogging, Web/Tech, Weblogs

http://www.bloggingblog.org/2006/08/on_vox_vox.html
June 29, 2006

Comment Spam

Well, this open-commenting site has been (re)discovered. So, another poll: [I’ve no idea why all this whitespace is in here] Continue reading

About This Site, Blogging, Web/Tech

“comment spam”, Blogging, captcha, commenting, poll, spam
June 25, 2006

FeedFlare

This is a test, to see how things are different after activating FeedFlare for Watermark — despite all the explanation, I’ve no idea what to expect. Just a hint to the techies — pictures, pictures, pictures, please. Awhile back, I added FeedBurner, then forgot about it. This service runs all your feeds through the FeedBurner… Continue reading

About This Site, Blogging, Photos 2006, Web/Tech

Blogging, blogs, FeedBurner, FeedFlare, feeds, subscribers, watermark
June 8, 2006

Google’s Writely, and more

There is lots of conversation lately about is Google evil? What if Google decided to be evil (via Google Blogoscoped)? But no one argues much about whether Google is useful. I am a great fan of GMail, and have, one by one, abandoned all my other accounts. So simple, so efficient — and I love… Continue reading

Web Tools, Web/Tech

Blogging, email, GMail, google, tech, web 2.0, word processor, Writely, Writing

Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

Web/Tech

Why social software is good for introverts

Vox: the personal journal solution?

Comment Spam

FeedFlare

Google’s Writely, and more