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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.

Blogging as ephemeral, or There are still useful sentences in there, in the e-dark, waiting.

http://smith.smallpict.com/2013/12/28/bloggingAsEphemeral.html

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 10, 2014

Blogmath: 250 words a day, say, adds up to 90,000 words a year, enough for a book or a few ebooks.

http://smith.smallpict.com/2013/12/28/bloggingAsEphemeral.html

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 10, 2014

“White people are often sincerely and greatly pained by racism, but rarely are they pained enough.” @TaNehisiCoates

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/the-new-republic-an-appreciation/383561/?single_page=true

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 10, 2014

“A report about state crimes that should never have been committed, should never have been authorized.”

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/09/guardian-view-on-us-torture-report-america-shame-disgrace

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 9, 2014December 9, 2014

Journalism’s crisis “has nothing to do with the work journalists actually do.” As @JeffJarvis says, this is wrong.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/real-crisis-journalism-new-republic

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 9, 2014December 9, 2014

Once a philosophy student, Hans Westerink now crafts chocolate and is launching Violent Sky Chocolate. @IUSouthBend

http://ediblemichiana.com/features/raising-the-chocolate-bar/

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 9, 2014December 9, 2014

Chocolate is “much too important to be left solely in the hands of massive factory producers,” says Hans Westerink.

http://ediblemichiana.com/features/raising-the-chocolate-bar/

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 9, 2014December 9, 2014

“Generosity is the Internet’s greatest currency.” From the Reported.ly manifesto.

View at Medium.com

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 9, 2014

To say exactly what she meant about creative writing, Eudora Welty needed five commas in this single sentence:

http://10x14s.smallpict.com/2014/12/08/#a1418060699

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 8, 2014

Lots of people don’t know how much their genre writes for them. And also writes them. New from @JayRosen_nyu:

http://pressthink.org/2014/12/i-had-just-arrived-in-the-chicago-bureau-and-i-needed-a-story/

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 8, 2014

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