WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

personal blogging

November 20, 2007

A Cornucopia of Icons

Today’s Guest Blogger is Anne, gentle host of Ample Sanity, one of the tastiest, crunchiest, resource-full weblogs on the Net. You can learn more about Anne at the end of this post. Web icons are a wonderful way to add visual impact and personality to a blog. Here’s a nice list of free web icons… Continue reading

design

blog design, Blogging, graphics, icons, personal blogging
November 11, 2007

Have Blogs Lost Their Humanity? & Links

Today you get more than links, because I need to write about something that has been annoying me. It might annoy you, too. The fact that I’m writing about this two weeks after the fact just reinforces why I am not an A-list blogger. ATTN: Tech Bloggers! You are not all there is. Yours are… Continue reading

Blogging

bloggers, Blogging, links, Lisa Barone, personal blogging, Robert Scoble, tech blogging, Twitter
September 15, 2007

If your blog were a building. . .

…what kind of building would it be? An office, a factory, a shop? A house, an apartment, a farmhouse? A palace, a shack, a chicken coop? Perhaps a workshop, a crafting room, a studio? Or even a garden, a park, a forest? There was a time when we thought of websites as places; places where… Continue reading

design

blog design, personal blogging, web design
August 27, 2007

Personal Blogging|Blogging for the love of it

Lorelle at WordPress published a series of posts recently on Personal Blogging, by guest blogger Edrei Zahari. (You’ll find links to the whole series at the bottom of each post; don’t neglect the comments.) In response, Damien Riley confesses that “Personal blogging has become my fixation,” and points to The Online Diary History Project for… Continue reading

Blogging

Blogging, personal blogging, TGB, Weblogs

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.

personal blogging

A Cornucopia of Icons

Have Blogs Lost Their Humanity? & Links

If your blog were a building. . .

Personal Blogging|Blogging for the love of it