It's in the LinkBag

LinkBag is a social bookmarking website—the primary use of LinkBag is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same. LinkBag is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.

• Bloggers can add links to their posts enabling LinkBag users to post that link to their list of bookmark—this can promote your links as they are getting exposure in the LinkBag ‘recently bookmarked’ list.
  
• LinkBag is free to join.
  

Exploring LinkBag

1. Go to the LinkBag homepage.
2. Click on ‘linkblog‘ to see items recently bookmarked by other LinkBag users. This is a ‘real-time’ list of online stuff being cataloged by thousands of LinkBag users.
   You’ll notice that LinkBag is still pretty ‘tech heavy.’ Much like blogging, the early-adopters of social bookmarking are folks who aren’t skittish about techie stuff. That’s why we gotta get ‘real people’ involved!

So, now that you’ve bopped around LinkBag as a casual observer let’s get you in the mix—

How to Get Started Using LinkBag

1. Create a LinkBag account. Register here…
2. Add a ‘browser button’ to your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari). Here’s how… When you see something you want to bookmark, click on the browser button and you’ll be able to automatically add that bookmark to your LinkBag bookmarks list. You can also tag that bookmark with keywords to allow you find it faster at a later date.

Dawn of the Dead

Rock Heals has a cool little contest goin' down presently...

Here ya go:

Zombie Haiku: Short poem about, involving, or from the point of view of zombie or zombies. Need not be all out 5-7-5 style (syllables, I mean). If you need further definition of 'zombie,' please leave now.

Send it to: submit at rockheals dot com(as in submit to the zombie fury)

Send it by: Howzabout June 30, 2006—that should give you plenty of time.

I've also started a thread at The Small Press Exchange—in my new role as moderator! (hehe) — to workshop Zombie Haiku. Check it out here. Please submit all Haiku to the people at Rock Heals.

I've threw up (pun intended) a quickie tonight:

Yearning fills my heart
When the shotgun is primed - limbs
vaporized to red mist!

Let's see what you got!

What constitutes publication?

If a poem has been selected by an editor and "published" in print or electronic form, then I would consider that poem to be published. Printing a poem in an online journal obviously makes that poem "published". Posting a poem to the poets.org forum, although it may be read my many readers, does *not* constitute publication—in my mind, at least. That's because it's equivalent to tacking your poem up on a notice board at a college campus or wherever. The key to this discussion (although not the only concern) is that on the poets.org there are no editors. There is no virtue or necessity to "acknowledge" such appearances of one's poems. It's like acknowledging the notice board to which you might have thumb-tacked your poem. Why on earth do that and consider it a legitimate acknowledgment?

I have to disagree with the idea that anything accessible online is considered 'published'. Poems or articles posted to a blog for instance are not considered editorially to have been Published (although they have, legally, been published—note the distinction of the two by capitalization or not of the initial P). Similarly for posting by authors on their own or on an employer's web pages.
Think of pre-prints—if pre-prints of a book or article are made widely available or disseminated, they are still techinically not "published", despite being easily had.

I think the discerning factor here is the idea of peer review. It seems, then, that author intent is one key to Publication (as opposed to publication). A paper is considered Published when the author submits it somewhere for Publication and it is accepted, but not necessarily when it is made available for consumption.

The expert and the neophyte both have equal voices on the internet. Thus it is up to each person who reads information (including poems and commentary about them!) online to take it with a great grain of salt.

Which 20th Century poet are you?

Which 20th century poet are you?

You are Ezra Pound. You feel that everyone should understand you. Everyone should speak five different languages, at least. Or everyone should get the cliff notes. You finally go insane.
Take this quiz!

Great, apparently I'm Ezra Pound. Thank god my poetry is not a confused mixture of fascist apologetics, economic theory, anti-Semitism, literary judgment and memory

It would never happen in the US would it?

"President Bush, stop him from killing," the woman shouted, to the surprise of hundreds of guests spread across the lawn on a sunny, warm day. "President Bush, stop him from persecuting the Falun Gong"—a banned religious movement in China.T

In the name of free speech, a "cameraman tried to put his hand over her mouth before uniformed Secret Service officers hustled her away." What the hell was he doing? Protecting the Presidents from hearing the truth?

So protesters can expect the same treatment from the US as they do from the Chinese government.

Democracy?

Charge of the Light Brigade as Anti-War?

My first post arises from a thread on the foetry message board...

I always felt that Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade" was an anti-war poem. A friend argues the opposite, stating that the poem reflected the jingoistic nature and sentimentality of Victorian England. What do you think?

I wrote in the foetry thread:

Why some feel that the poem reflects the jingoism and "pro patria mori" of Victorian England, I don't understand. Given the social strictures of 19th century Britain, the criticism of the generals in the second verse ("Not tho' the soldier knew, Someone had blunder'd") was an indictment itself and makes it necessarily anti-war a la Hamuburger Hill in Full Metal Jacket -- both visions made a distinction between the folly of the commanders and the bravery of the doomed soldier (a theme often alluded to in all anti-war literature, movies, etc.)

Click here for the text. What do you think? Did they have anti-war sentiments during Victorian times, beyond the obvious? Were there any protests or organizations?

I've expanded on some of these ideas on my blog over at the small press exchange. Click here.

Welcome to my blog!

Well, I'm taking the plunge. Welcome to Of Being Numerous, an irregular look into the random ramblings of a mad poet.

In this blog, I hope to give some commentary on current events, a little poetry, a little rant about my day, a little humor -- in other words, a little bit of everything.

I had planned on hosting this on my own site, but I can't figure out the FTP settings for my DotEasy account. If anyone knows that, PLEASE let me know!! The way things stand, I won't even be able to see this blog from work, because of the filtering system that the school uses. I'm not going to do the whole biography thing right now.

If I'm doing this blog thing right, you'll know a lot about me soon, just from reading the blog. Suffice to say, I'm 36, married, and have a youngster on the way.

That's it for the intro -- stop by in the future for some real commentary.