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Webstream: My Week on the Web

Hmmm. I completely forgot to do this last week. A bit preoccupied:

I continue to plug away at this, a bit behind, but managing, at 28,098 words as of this evening. Now that I've fallen into this project, it seems that I keep stumbling on articles and programs about memory. Perhaps I just wasn't paying attention before.

So far, a post every day -- yesterday, thanks to Prairie Mary, who anticipated, before I did, that I might need a backup. 

So, recently:

Stumbled:

• Friday Fun - You Know You Are Living in 2007 When... - too true
• Liverpool University Centre for Poetry & Science - LUPAS -  a forum to facilitate discussion about the relationship between those two traditionally opposed subjects, poetry and science. The site will provide new poetry, commentary, newly commissioned essays and interviews with leading poets and scientists.
• StupidFilter - Because the internet needs prophylactics for memetically transmitted diseases.
• Dangerous Minds: Malcolm Gladwell at the New Yorker - Criminal profiling made easy.

Bookmarked:

• Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything - Telegraph - this must have lots of folks -- those who can understand it -- excited. One way or the other.
• Josh Foer on memory - Boing Boing - I'll be looking for more on this.
• The Corpus Callosum: Do-Gooders Can Become The Worst Of Cheaters - this could explain a lot...
• bookr :: pimpampum - another flickr toy
• Judge Rules on What Makes a Poem
• Lucid Dreaming - An online resource dedicated to lucid dreaming

@ Blogging Blog:

• Top 5 Traffic Building Tips for Personal Bloggers, by Skellie
• Blogging Punch! Blogging Pizazz!, by Anne
• Have Blogs Lost Their Humanity? a response to Robert Scoble, by me
  
• Blogs as a medium for online literary magazines: lessons from qarrtsiluni, by Dave Bonta
• 5 Simple Tactics for Blogging Success, by Damien Riley

@ Abide:

• Memory, NaNoWriMo, Illness...
• Suffering and Honor

Here at Watermark:

• The Fine Print
• NaBloPoMo | NaNoWriMo
• snapshot poem 07 november 02007
• My Poetic Statement
• Prairie Mary's Cousin's Kittens
• NaBloPoMo, NaNoWriMo
• Remembrance Day
• Save An Alien!
• snapshot poem 14 november 02007
• A Typical History of a Pretty Girl
• Hey, You! Yes, You! You Personal (Cat) Blogger!
• Prairie Mary's Missoula, & Friendship

Also:

Blogging Blog is on a list of Top Blogs About Blogging. We didn't make the top fifty, but at #53 on a list of mostly recognizable names, I don't feel badly about that. For any of you who blog, this list is an excellent resource.

I'm sure I'm forgetting something -- but that's my life these days: remembering, forgetting, remembering, forgetting... 

Webstream: My Week on the Web

A few links this week, but not as many as usual. I've decided to move my blogging- related links to Blogging Blog, to spare those of you who really are not interested in meta-blogging. Those of you who are interested, can go over there, or even better, subscribe to Blogging Blog for posts from me and others on this, to me, fascinating subject. 

My time on the web is changing, as I shift my attention to the daily writing challenge of NaNoWriMo. I "won" last year, making the 50,000 word goal; but a lot of that, to be honest, was padding. Still, I proved to myself that I could do it; that I could maintain that level of focus and continuity with my writing.

This year is, not painless, but easier. I'm doing a sort-of memoir, a sort-of autobiography -- so the material is right here, in my memory. I'm moving aside the blocks that stopped me cold earlier this year.

And then there's NaBloPoMo, the blog post a day challenge. This is more fun than it was last year, because the new site is so exciting. There are so many groups! I already belong to several, even though, with both of these projects at once, I don't have much time to participate.

My guess is that some of these groups will continue to be active and interesting, though, even after November has passed.

So, last week:

Stumbled:

• Time Goes By - What its really like to get older - Ronni has asked her readers to visit and review the bloggers (elder bloggers) on her sidebar. An excellent idea, and now an even better resource for finding good blogs.

Bookmarked:

• The Global Sympathetic Audience - New York Times - interesting article on Tumblr, Twitter, etc: spontaneous and almost continuous communication

Here at Watermark:

• epiphanist and Lonita Introduced themselves (yes, I know I'm a bit behind on this)
  
• Snapshot Poem 31 Oct '07
• Cat-O-Lantern
• Poetry Everywhere
• Cat-O-Lantern 2
• Strength & Fragility [Photo Friday]

Also:

pohanginapete says: I'd be interested to hear about some of the ways you think your poems have changed over time — not so much the subjects (if indeed they have changed noticeably), but how you present what you have to say.

And Niki asks: I am wondering what "Twitter Updates" are on the side link.

I'm planning posts to answer these questions -- but probably not soon.

9,086 words so far.