WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

internet

August 14, 2007

Telling Our Stories: Inspirational Bloggers

Cusp, at l’ombre de mon ombre, has given me an Inspirational Blogger Award for my beautifully crafted blog full of inspiration, creativity and courage in the face of M.E. Of course, Watermark has been completely redesigned since it won this award; let’s just assume it still wins. These awards were initiated by Writer’s Reviews, with… Continue reading

Blogging, Weblogs

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April 1, 2005

Yahoo! 360 – A Quick Review

I’ve played with this for awhile now, and watched other people play with it; these are my brief initial impressions (remembering that this is still in Beta): This is not a real blogging tool, though it would work fine for a journal or diary to share with friends. In fact, if I use the blogging… Continue reading

Blogging Platforms, reviews

Blogging, internet, review, WWW, Yahoo 360

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.

internet

Telling Our Stories: Inspirational Bloggers

Yahoo! 360 – A Quick Review