Ant Noise, Part 2

Jane Vandenburgh — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:31:39 +0000

Back in the days of the FAX machine, I used to write a poem and occasionally publish it, via FAX, in an edition of say four to six. I’d send it out unbidden to a handful of my friends, which seems a perfect fit because it honestly did no harm. The same kind of outreach is done these days, very obviously, by the blogging impulse that seems to have attached itself to some of us. Fact is only some of us have anything interesting to say and that happens only some of the time, so maybe the blog IS the perfect 21st century format.

At best this blog will let me process information about the subjects that interest me, that is (right now) birds, particularly black ones, the death by cat predation of songbirds, also the disappearance of the American newspaper. I plan to organize my thoughts by blog posting on the subjects of Brevity (or how to say the most in the fewest words possible), Carry the Nine (which is a social experiment that I’m interested in organizing so I get to participate in it) and Ant Noise, the Real Way We Get the News.

I’m going to try to post more often and to make my posts shorter and see how that works, more like a Status Update on Facebook but limited (at the moment) to the topics described.

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Ant Noise, Part 2