Comments on: Gift basket fractal: Pass One

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:42:48 +0000

Thank you Tristan. I’m still puzzling over how to define where my writing has been so’s I can redefine it. In a sense, you have just described a response that I used to aim for, but perhaps lost the confidence in and the sight of.

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:30:13 +0000

aha! thanks Kathi. Your words here led my evercurious mind into a google search on such terms as ‘information pollution’ and ‘attention theft’. Lots of interesting reading to pursue out there but you’ve spoken to it better than the rest – to my mind :)

By: TF

TF — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 03:12:25 +0000

Brad, the shift in this poem is magic. I don’t know what you are talking about, so I’m left with words and the rhythm of those words. Once you write of the swimmer in the lake, everything becomes clear. More than clear, in fact.

A thought-provoking quote from Gleick, too – although I’m more taken with the book’s subtitle.

By: tipota

tipota — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:56:23 +0000

ok thanks! information in excess or otherwise clutters the brainscape. it’s collected perhaps weekly to a giant depository where with some digging you might find somethings useful. and we can see a plethora, and that it is “streaming live” and also just streaming. and the potential for hoarding ha ha is introduced. its a pernicious journey for the information junkie. tossed to and fro by politic, inflected by opinion, treading theory in choppy waters and magnetized by new stuff that comes along and has to be examined ha ha. because it’s in the wiring…or maybe not, maybe at this point its a choice. the daily news for instance is loaded with ‘info’. and repeated several times daily, out and out. and except for npr its never anything good, its always jerking me around, so i dont want to spend on it. if news is bad enough it will reach me by word of mouth or other more direct less programmable means. so i can respond perhaps to an emergency.

but otherwise when i want to touch base with the pulse of the world i come here bird to the valued words and expressions of friends and compatriots across the globe, that to me, are worthy. there are people who can withstand the current while standing waist-deep in the rushing stream. yup, attention is expensive, on loan at a high interest rate, so be choosy, and dont let it be stolen.