Monthly Archives: December 2008

Blogging Basics, and Putting together a Promotion Strategy

For some reason, I’m feeling like I should put everything I know about blogging in one place. I. Should you blog? So you think you want to blog, or are interested in starting your own blog. Given how much time this enterprise consumes, I do encourage you if you are active on the web in …

December 7, 2008 – 4:31 am | By ashok | Posted in blogging | Comments (8)

For Digg: 5 Simple Ways to Make Sure Your Comments Work for You

It is possible to get a reputation through your comments that can be helpful to you later, even though the comments do get deleted. The trick is to make the right sort of comment often so that they’re visible enough, and then have something else which can help you preserve the community you’re in effect …

December 6, 2008 – 3:35 am | By ashok | Posted in blogging | Tagged | Comments (7)

The Meaning of Unrequited Love? On “Transatlanticism,” by Death Cab for Cutie

for Constance Turner Transatlanticism Death Cab for Cutie (song available here; lyrics from here) The Atlantic was born today and I’ll tell you how The clouds above opened up and let it out I was standing on the surface of a perforated sphere When the water filled every hole And thousands upon thousands made an …

December 5, 2008 – 11:52 pm | By ashok | Posted in music | Tagged , | Comments (3)

Links, 12/3/08

Stressed. No reason. Ario has posted some amazing stuff recently, but his description of a recent snowfall and the attendant crows is most prominent in my mind: The city is snowed under. Crows perch on the glazed branches. Like inkblots on wrinkling paper they drip sideways and into the space ahead. Between the tenement blocks …

December 4, 2008 – 12:07 am | By ashok | Posted in links | Comments (1)

Notes on Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” (288)

“I’m Nobody! Who are you?” (288) Emily Dickinson I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – Too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one’s name – the livelong June – …

December 2, 2008 – 4:47 pm | By ashok | Posted in dickinson, poetry | Tagged , , | Comments (4)