Web Laureate Classic: "Spokeo: Creepy Oh!"

It’s so creepy,
So creepy and spooky and strange –
It’s so creepy,
To see what everyone is doing.
It’s so creepy,
So weird and awkward and (borderline) deranged.

It’s so creepy,
To learn what more is online than I thought.
It’s so creepy,
So funky and freaky and odd –
It’s so creepy,
Everything that they did online I caught.

It’s so creepy,
Using spokeo with all of my friends.
It’s so creepy,
So creepy and spooky and strange –
It’s so creepy,
To see products like this among the growing trends.

originally conceived March 2, 2008

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Web Laureate Insight, "ad.ly: agree wee"

Today’s Web Laureate Insight to last Tuesday’s poem…

ad.ly: agree wee

we all

I believe slightly agree, just a wee bit, that ads from friends, recommendations are ok, but concern does arise from the pushing of ads, unhindered, uncontrolled. as fingers across the board, a screech, the sounds of ‘eeeeeee’, the sense of ads flooding in, a similar feeling felt by we

want less

noise in the stream – we plea for less noise. if the ads, the recommendations can be of the value-add ad then positively happy we will be. otherwise, commit you can be assured leave we all will do. with more control will come acceptance and our collective happiness and relief.

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ad.ly: agree wee

agree be wee.

see, we
disagree,
actually.

she plea, he plea –
free sea,
mostly noisy debris.

attendee, devotee…
thee, thee, thee,
thee, thee –
guarantee absentee.

happily empty
sine overly
ad.ly jubilee…
be key.

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Web Laureate Insight, "Microsoft & Yahoo: 44.6B"

Today’s Web Laureate Classic Insight into last Thursday’s poem…

44.6B

once —

there once was a time when microsoft and yahoo working together was both exciting and controversial. the thought of it generated a ton of speculation online. and yahoo was / is in shambles, Terry Semel on Yahoo’s board, left.

— again

the proposed purchase price from steve balmer of microsoft to yahoo was $44.6B. an amount we never expect to see expressed between the twain again. with the future year’s earnings at the time, and since then, looking bleak, weak.

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Web Laureate Classic: "Microsoft & Yahoo: 44.6B"

Four days since Terry left the board
Four more quarters – the future year, abhorred
Point by point, product by product –
Steve offers an amount that only Microsoft can afford
6 new opinions for every two other –
To the blogosphere and media they poured
Billions of eyeballs, perhaps the sought prize –
And the end of the day. Each one hoping to not be ignored.

originally conceived February 3, 2008

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Web Laureate Insight, "Buzz: Control-Release"

Today’s Web Laureate Insight to last Monday’s poem…

Buzz: Control-Release

faster

the chatter keeps coming from new and newer apps for socializing. recently, google released a product called buzz, with much excitement and controversy and most of all, a lot more friend to friend to person somewhere chattering

the structure of the poem inspired by one of my most frequent of muses (john keats) in iambic pentameter was so formed; designed to capture a sense of speed of change in apps, in google buzz, and online socializing in general

sense-link

but for the buzz-quality, buzz-worthiness of the structure i sought to create both a sense of speed with just a touch of the awkwardness that this controversy, heavily within the realms of privacy and consumer security, has centered around. the awkwardness – the chaos within – conveyed through the juxtaposition of similar sounds prior to expected rhymes, e.g. security & privacy, restored & floor

the links to the many sides and google-unexpected buzz generated by the release of the google buzz … as well as to the many now connected facets of this growing communications hub

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Buzz: Control-Release

from top, from high, was it released to all;
of charm it borrowed full from that, the place,
the home of idle thoughts, and more, from call
of voice to business things – them typed, embraced.

as one who leaps before the eyes have spied
the way, so too gmail’s rocket sounded.

this faint persistent rumble heard by wide…
of all, to all, of mistakes abounded.

the word, the words were many ways, but most
they focused upon lax security,
so called was it, privacy, from the host…
of reckless, of not quite maturity.

so too, abandon features, many more –
found people asked for what was found amiss,
from simple filter things, the restored floor
of noise, and grasp regained control of this.

 

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Web Laureate Insight, "AML (All My Love)"

Today’s Web Laureate Classic Insight into last Thursday’s poem…

AML (All My Love)

time&

around the valentines when this poem was originally crafted there were some fun bits of news floating around. first, that valentine’s day is the biggest texting holiday. second, gizmoz, and avatar-y company was making availble some very fun valentine’s ecards

4luv&

in that spirit of the sentiment of the time and aligned with day I wrote from my heart in the form of the subjects. in plan-language, non-text-y, it reads…

All My Love
From the bottom of my heart,
I love you so dearly.
But, get you a great gift
I did not do early.
With valentines day
In such a great hurry.
With it fast approaching,
I’m beginning to worry.
Thank god for Gizmoz,
Their digital card – I send surely.
I love you my dear –
Your hair so hot and curly.
But I now must go,
Later meet you at Charlies.
For during this time,
SMS texting with my girlie,
My phone plan – my SMS’s,
Am told to have less than thirty.

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Web Laureate Classic: "AML (All My Love)"

AML
FTBOMH,
ILU so dearly.
But, gt u a gr8 gift
I ddnt do erly.
W V-day
n sucha gr8 hrry.
W it fst approaching,
I’m Bginin 2 wori.
Thank gd 4 Gizmoz,
Thr dig crd – I snd surely.
I LY my dEr – Your hair so ht n curly.
bt I nw mst go,
l8r mtU @ Charlies.
4 durin dis tym,
SMS txtN W my girlie,
My ph plan – my SMS’s,
Am tld 2hv less thN 30.

originally conceived February 13, 2008

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Web Laureate Insight, "Followbase: I did"

Today’s Web Laureate Insight to last Monday’s poem…

Followbase: I did

“I”…

planned a trip on a new airline when seeking help for this first time. sought a correct path from a new service, but, in the end, this aggregated assistance did not leave me less nervous.

with the groups of lines grouped in pairs, their sums produce 7-6-7, a popular mid-sized airplane, a thread of the theme weaved throughout and between

followed

one sequence 3-4-3, so to does a new sequence, different in meaning, same in structure, follow

in sequence and pairs people follow, people lead. and pairs of pairs do so indeed. as is herein these pairs, syllables – two … unclear if these pairs, this service, are/will/be lead, copy in a smaller way, or simply fall/follow through

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