Category Archives: BLOGGING

REALITY? & BLOGGING: Written Therapy

Posted on May 28, 2004 by Susan

Inspired by Joe’s post at The Word Foundry, I am trying to put my thoughts together to both explain where Spinning has been in the last few weeks, and where it will be heading soon, I hope. Joe, whom I’ve … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Whatever Comes to Mind

Posted on May 18, 2004 by Susan

Worried, just a bit and then forgotten, that I frighten some away with words revealing strange thoughts. Grateful, to those who ride the waves. Happily surprised and satisfied, by few who understand them, mostly poets such as GLH, and given … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Shotgun Thinking

Posted on May 17, 2004 by Susan

Mind’s a maze. Mind’s amazing. Buzzing bees and bats in the belfry. belfry: a movable tower used in ancient warfare for attacking walled positions. (Webster’s New World College Dictionary 4th Ed.) Flights of fancy. Back to basics. Bureaucracy at its … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & BLOGGING: Ode to Cheever

Posted on May 15, 2004 by Susan

Swimmer You splash your way through life in alcoholic stupor you recall and yet forget, and so you live within the good times of the past. And in your wake, the people who have known you shake their heads knowing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY? & Blogging: Natural

Posted on May 15, 2004 by Susan

We’ve been blessed, this year, with an exceptional amount of warm Spring mornings. The air is fresh, cool breezes blow, birds skim through space graceful and unhurried. I felt an urge to dance naked on the lawn today, content at … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING & WRITING: RSS Feed & Special NEWS!

Posted on May 8, 2004 by Susan

In a post below I mentioned that one of the problems with RSS feeds is that if you depend totally upon them, not only do you tend to miss out on some great stuff that’s not listed in the excerpts … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: RSS Feeds

Posted on May 7, 2004 by Susan

No doubt about it, blogging is having a huge effect on reading and writing. I intend to delve deeper into this particular aspect that RSS feeds impact how we are reading blogs, because it started bothering me the other day … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Spam

Posted on May 4, 2004 by Susan

It’s depressing to see how many weblogs have been hit by comment spam, and hopefully all such nonsense will be eliminated soon by a higher intelligence (don’t take much, neither!). I have been fortunate not to receive a lot of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: New Media

Posted on May 3, 2004 by Susan

Whew and neat-o! From J-Walk Blog, this weird little scenario called Hotel, an Interactive Tale that combines hypertext with IF, a plot of sorts and visuals. With any luck, this is the kind of stuff I’ll be just tasting in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & BLOGGING: Write, write! But write right!

Posted on April 30, 2004 by Susan

Within Spinning I have followed both my personal writing progress as well as that of others and have posted many times on what I feel are the benefits of utilizing a weblog as discipline to hone writing skills. I have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Going Down?

Posted on April 23, 2004 by Susan

Okay, I’m gettin’ down and dirty, and some halfass poetics may mark the day yet. Am playing out the blogging process in my head right now, and wonder if–or that an “if” is relative here because it may be all … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS & BLOGGING: What to do?

Posted on April 20, 2004 by Susan

Just kind of bummed out this morning. I have something typed up for posting and I’m copping out on it because it’s relative to the prior posting. Sad part is, it itself is a cop-out, but I’m even worried about … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: FAD

Posted on April 19, 2004 by Susan

Over at Wanderlust, Neha (of scholarship and governor’s award fame) has written a post about her personal discovery of addiction to blogging, and how it has changed her life. Honest and concerned, Neha questions the effects on her future, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Ooooooohhhhh, Yes!

Posted on April 18, 2004 by Susan

I knew that we could count on the language experts to provide us with the words that progressing technology demands. From Rethabile Masilo at On English: BLORGASM {BLORG-asm} /BLORG-uhzm/ noun. The acme of excitement attained when a blogger logs on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Tip Jars

Posted on April 18, 2004 by Susan

I ask this because I don’t really understand it, not because I’m questioning the ethics or etiquette: Why do some weblogs ask for donations? It seems that with free services available, or the relative inexpensive cost of even more elaborate … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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