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W.S. Merwin – Just This

 Poems
Nov 202010
 

When I think of the patience I have had
back in the dark before I remember
or knew it was night until the light came
all at once at the speed it was born to
with all the time in the world to fly through
not concerned about ever arriving
and then the gathering of the first stars
unhurried in their flowering spaces
and far into the story the planets
cooling slowly and the ages of rain
then the seas starting to bear memory
the gaze of the first cell at its waking
how did this haste begin this little time
at any time this reading by lightning
scarcely a word this nothing this heaven

What can blogging teach traditional journalism?

 Tech Notes
Nov 202010
 
  1. Be more personal.
  2. Let the public in on news decision-making.
  3. Be more focused and intentional – stop trying to be everything to everybody.
  4. Print the truth, not just the facts.
  5. Don’t just report, teach. Become a resource and not just a product.
  6. Be more local.
  7. Give readers access to source material (like the full text of interviews).
  8. Add multiple RSS feeds to web sites.
  9. Add email addresses to stories.
  10. Learn to change in response to the flow of news or market conditions.

Don’t think of this article as a primer for journalists, think of it as an outline of what to expect from your source of news.

[SOURCE: First Draft, AUTHOR: Tim Porter]

http://www.timporter.com/firstdraft/

John Maynard Keynes: “it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.”

 Quotes
Nov 202010
 

[T]he ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas… sooner or later, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

William Shakespeare – Sonnet 141

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Nov 202010
 

In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors note;
But ’tis my heart that loves what they despise,
Who, in despite of view, is pleas’d to dote.
Nor are mine ears with thy tongue’s tune delighted;
Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone.
Nor taste nor smell desire to be invited
To any sensual feast with thee alone:
But my five wits nor my five senses can
Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee,
Who leaves unsway’d the likeness of a man,
Thy proud heart’s slave and vassal wretch to be:
Only my plague thus far I count my gain,
That she that makes me sin awards me pain.

Alexander Pope – Ode on Solitude

 Poems
Nov 202010
 

I
How happy he, who free from care
The rage of courts, and noise of towns;
Contented breaths his native air,
In his own grounds.

II
Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,
Whose flocks supply him with attire,
Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
In winter fire.

III
Blest! who can unconcern’dly find
Hours, days, and years slide swift away,
In health of body, peace of mind,
Quiet by day,

IV
Sound sleep by night; study and ease
Together mix’d; sweet recreation,
And innocence, which most does please,
With meditation.

V
Thus let me live, unheard, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me dye;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lye.