WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

privacy

October 13, 2007

Opacity & Transparency

Click for larger image Angry Little Girls comic posted with permission [Lots more here; go see!]Via Grab and Stash, which I found at BlueBlog When Watermark was only a few months old, in May 2004, I requested a review from The Weblog Review. Wendy began by saying: As the weblog begins, Watermark tests out the… Continue reading

Blogging, Personal

blog reviews, Blogging, privacy, transparency
July 6, 2006

privacy & exposure

[I’m on vacation. This was originally posted Tuesday, 27 January 2004 ~ one of my first posts] This process of building websites, and doing an online notebook, raises for me issues of privacy and exposure – how much to reveal? What really is the interest of the (unknown) audience? & when may I name names,… Continue reading

Blogging, favorites ~ repost

Blogging, exposure, privacy, Writing
June 9, 2006

Harvesting Your Online Information

New Scientist is reporting that the Pentagon’s National Security Agency is funding research to harvest information that people post online in social networking sites such as MySpace. Assuming that the blogosphere will be included, your blog could be monitored by the NSA for your political affiliations or activitist activities. "You should always assume anything you… Continue reading

Current Affairs

NSA, privacy, social networking
January 27, 2004

privacy & exposure

This process of building websites, and doing an online notebook, raises for me issues of privacy and exposure – how much to reveal? What really is the interest of the (unknown) audience? & when may I name names, and when may I not? Is the reader knowledgeable enough to realize that poetry is fiction, that… Continue reading

About This Site, Blogging, Noticed, Weblogs, Writing

Blogging, exposure, poetry, privacy

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.

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Opacity & Transparency

privacy & exposure

Harvesting Your Online Information

privacy & exposure