WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

GMail

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
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/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.

GMail

Google’s Writely, and more

Google’s Writely, and more