Usually, poetry or free verse is left to my sweetie. I thought I'd throw this in, however, because it also applies to the blogosphere. As an old reader in France just reminded me, it also represents a fragment salvaged from a (now defunct) personal web site that I began back in 1997. The Kat's Meow included self-paced training libraries re: e-commerce and the electronic economy, intranets, web design, and knowledge management; as well as a link to a site I had done for the brilliant organizational change thinker Gareth Morgan. Innocent days...
That's the key to your future.
It's the human highway
Made possible
By information technology.
The information economy
Is a fiction
Economics revolves around scarcities
Information is not scarce
Attention is
Return on investment = Return on time
In the attention economy
We are all performers
Sometimes
Attention is a peek into another's mind
A connection
Performance is the act of encoding the glimpse
In music
Gestures
Light
Bits
It all begins
With the most difficult instrument
Yourself
The universe lends other tools
For us to shape
We learn to use them as extensions of ourselves
Because they are
Doorways. Portals. Hubs
They flourish on-line as gateways to possibilities.
They flourish off-line, too
If you take the time to notice
What are you a gateway to?
Thanks to a most excellent 1999 Black Sabbath concert for the inspiration.
In a way, my comment is OT, and in another, not. John M. "Mike" Ford wrote a poem I just recently found on the Web. It's called "110 Stories". I commend it to your attention. Read it, won't you?
Ford's been a gateway to good for as long as I can remember.
#1 from Nortius Maximus: "It's called "110 Stories". I commend it to your attention. Read it, won't you?"
I did read it.
I checked in to say that the question "What are you a gateway to?"
Getting it right is a lot harder than just noticing though. It's a lifetime's work and more.
Preview is my friend.
The question "What are you a gateway to?" is about as important as a question gets. Of course for the religious, it can also be: "Who are you a gateway for?"
Regarding 110 Stories, I assume John M. "Mike" Ford is a credentialled poet? It's generous of him to turn his attention to this, though years later, and not to mock. He didn't have to do that. Modern poetry doesn't call for such relevance or decency.
The trick to using the gateway, is to aknowledge all information as you reach it, but if forced to fill your head in little time, you end up with a scenario where you have 10000 people trying to jump through the gate all at the one time. Causing a potential breakdown of information and stress on the space, you got to pace yourself, and let your space constantly adapt.
People spend too much time, trying to force feed information into people, without trying to adapt to thier needs, there desires, or circumstances.
The gateway is simply the ability to connect one and one together to realise all components of a particular topic. It's more or less, the ability to understand two different subjects, and understand there interaction on different concepts. It makes learning easier, and recall of memory easier as well because your constantly relating, and re updating you data thats stored in your head. when singled only you can only see over the fence, and make a round a bout sort of analysis.
Tempy.
simple questions
how does a circle start and where does it end..
now lets go to physics and subject friction and say it starts at the initial push of the object
now to quantum, there was an initial space area for say that contained enough elements okay now i'm in chemistry, to bind it together and allow for a push pull to happen. where does it end, when the two combine the push and pull, and find themselves behind the start.. the finish line.. okay sports.. but you there would have to be a vacuum effect of pull to continue, okay now we are in electricity and mechanics, but also for the circle to finish it needs to be bound and fused together in a manner to make a complete product, it there was no finish to the start, nothing to bind the information that is needed to connect the circle, like holding hands if one person doesn't hold, you cannot complete, and eventually it will just spiral, much like the milky way, it finds itself spiralling into a tight spiral, and eventually pushing the object up, or object down when the space no longer can fit the required matter thats following the push.. now if it managed to push outwards, the circle would just turn into a line... no curves, and a pointless line of train, one start, but no end.. much like the lame laws being put into play.. eventually the line might hit a corner and bend, then just travel round it's box being shaken back and forth, who knows what it would hit in it's path, much like the game on the ipod, the ball just travelling and hitting blocks. very destructive if your thinking the universe.
anyways hope that helps.
my main point I have to make now is
time is second to creation, if your watching the clock, your pre planning and you waste your time on possibilities instead of whats happening
(double take) The original poem or pseudo-poem is just a good, straightforward statement in library science / information science.
I like.
Also, 110 stories was timely, it was 2001. I used to have basic reading skills, I swear.
And it is good, as I discovered after reading it repeatedly. I think to do it justice, you would need to be able to read it aloud actually doing the different voices or your interpretations of them.