The big story is not about blogging. It’s not about Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Friendfeed or whatever. It is about.. Cheap. Easy. Global. Media. CheapEasyGlobal is the big story. (via Gaping […]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
another decision the company has made which has ‘…lead to the watering down of the Starbucks experience, and, what some might call the commoditization of our brand.’ brand autopsy Link
How To Tell If An Idea Is Any Good (via AdPulp) Link (via designer, Frank Chimero)
From the Editor’s Desk
Editor’s deskOriginally uploaded by coffeehouse junkie “May the wind take your troubles away…” —Son Volt, “Windfall” from the Trance album A hiatus from blogging was needed and taken. Many reasons […]
Handwritten Typographers
“The biggest disappointment was that I found so little “poetry” in Poetry…. Very little of it was readable, enjoyable…. many of the poems were burdened with unnecessarily complex, high-falutin’ diction… as well as obscure references to literature and literary figures; abstract, illogical metaphors and comparisons (”postage-stamp bright” and “chasms of flatness”); tin-ear rhymes (”state/copulate” and “drowses/blouses”) and hamstrung syntax (”surfeit of distance and the wracked mind waiting”).” Link
So Little Poetry in Poetry
PLOTUS: Kay Ryan
Outsider Poet Laureate, Kay Ryan, is not “a typical quietist in her use of short forms & short lines” writes Ron Silliman. Link (By “quietist,” Silliman refers to the School of […]
Poetry CDs an alternative to talk radio
Wifi Nomad
Some caffeine addicts are Starbucks groupies. Some caffeine addicts are Caribou Coffee lodgers. And then there’s those aficionados of caffeine dealers (the last legal drug dealers) that warm there wifi […]
Of course, if you’re reading this on tumblr, you are probably already perverting the language.
How texting is wrecking our language
