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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.

When an industry finds that its key words have unpleasant connotations, well, it can just use other words.

http://farmandfoodfile.com/2014/09/18/say/

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 20, 2014September 20, 2014

“Power is the ability to define others while not being, yourself, defined in turn.”

http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/the-soul-of-mark-zuckerberg-what-dubois-can-tell-us-about-facebook/

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 20, 2014

Mark Zuckerberg & W.E.B. DuBois, or what Facebook can tell us about whiteness.

http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/the-soul-of-mark-zuckerberg-what-dubois-can-tell-us-about-facebook/

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 20, 2014

“Sex workers…and advocates submitted a report to the United Nations on human rights violations…in the U.S.”

http://www.bestpracticespolicy.org/2014/09/19/u-s-policing-reform-must-address-abuses-against-people-in-sex-trades/

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 20, 2014September 20, 2014

“It has been decades since Congress asserted any meaningful role [in decisions about] military intervention.”

http://www.centeroncongress.org/the-president-and-the-congress-should-work-together-military-intervention

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 20, 2014September 20, 2014

This week’s radio piece is about one of those times when it’s important to go home.

http://wvpe.org/post/visit-mom

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 19, 2014

“Paying attention to what [readers] care about, [giving] them a way of expressing that,..can be extremely powerful.”

https://gigaom.com/2014/09/16/journalism-isnt-just-about-informing-readers-its-also-about-helping-them-take-action/

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 19, 2014

“All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking.”–Robert Hass. My previous, a spoof.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177014

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 19, 2014

“They have a monopoly, so why should they care.” The never-ending saga…

http://scripting.com/2014/09/17/#a1410958977

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 17, 2014September 17, 2014

Why an old-fashioned concordance can be better than a Google search. And what is a concordance, anyway?

http://scripting.com/2014/09/14/imANarrateYourWorkGuy.html#comment-1591416773

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 16, 2014

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