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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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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

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DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

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.

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Vox: the personal journal solution?