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Semaphore & Cairn

Semaphore & Cairn

—–message systems and citizenship—–

  • Semaphore Modern
  • Cairn Everlasting

Author: Ken Smith

These pieces were not written by the late British poet, Ken Smith (1938-2003), nor the other Ken Smiths who make bass guitars, study marine biology, sell cars, teach card counting, paint war scenes in oils, guide bear hunters in Idaho, teach forest management, study immunology, do war reporting, sell real estate, photograph nature, teach cryptology, provide legal counsel to the gay and lesbian community, realign the spines of athletes, listen for seismic faults in the Sierra Nevadas, operate a 4-axis milling machine, work for sustainable development in Alberta, play blackjack, or criticize Junk English. Nor were the pieces written by the Ken Smith who is “the Elvis Costello of Landscape Architecture” nor the one who serves in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives nor the one who hit a home run for the Atlanta Braves in 1983. I only wish.

“For younger readers, WordPerfect was the writing technology that replaced cave painting with aurochs blood.”

Ken Smith Uncategorized October 23, 2014October 23, 2014

.@NickKristof seeks advice about Facebook and journalism; hundreds reply: “We love it when you ask us questions!”

Ken Smith Uncategorized October 21, 2014

Private citizens might have the skills “not to wait passively for news, but actively to go out and create it.”

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/10/what-made-kate-gerry-mccann-object-of-so-much-anger

Ken Smith Uncategorized October 12, 2014October 12, 2014

A small theory about the hidden weakness and vulnerability of people who choose to be trolls.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/10/what-made-kate-gerry-mccann-object-of-so-much-anger

Ken Smith Uncategorized October 12, 2014

In a museum, if you spend twenty minutes with a painting, unexpected things start to happen in your brain and heart.

Ken Smith Uncategorized October 12, 2014

“In the end we get the version of freedom that they choose to provide — and can justify to their shareholders.”

https://gigaom.com/2014/10/08/for-better-or-worse-twitter-and-facebook-are-the-guardians-of-free-speech-now/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=for-better-or-worse-twitter-and-facebook-are-the-guardians-of-free-speech-now_879524

Ken Smith Uncategorized October 12, 2014

We’ve handed “our free-speech rights to [big social media] corporations, who are not bound by the First Amendment.”

https://gigaom.com/2014/10/08/for-better-or-worse-twitter-and-facebook-are-the-guardians-of-free-speech-now/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=for-better-or-worse-twitter-and-facebook-are-the-guardians-of-free-speech-now_879524

Ken Smith Uncategorized October 12, 2014October 12, 2014

Moyers: Wrapped in the right kind of social network, tiny houses may have some fresh possibilities for the homeless.

http://billmoyers.com/2014/10/06/are-tiny-houses-one-solution-to-homelessness/

Ken Smith Uncategorized October 7, 2014October 7, 2014

“There is [60 times] more gold in a ton of mobile phones..than there is in a ton of mined rock from a gold mine.”

http://www.rsablogs.org.uk/author/sophie-thomas/

Ken Smith Uncategorized October 5, 2014

Having a “posse” changes a young person’s chances for success: Deborah Bial’s @NYTCornerOffice interview. (@PosseFoundation)

Ken Smith Uncategorized October 5, 2014

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