Literary podcasting made simple with WordPress.com
This entry is part 7 of 18 in the series Poetics and technologyAs I opined in the first episode of the Woodrat Podcast, poetry is above all an oral art — to say nothing of storytelling. At the literary...
View ArticlePostal Poetry back online, and a facelift for Moving Poems
Ezra Pound famously advised poets to “make it new.” Poetry websites, too, can benefit from regular revamping. For the past several days, I’ve been playing around working to re-create a couple of...
View ArticleSmorgasblog: the fourth incarnation
This will be a minor housekeeping note for everyone but my fellow self-hosted WordPress (WordPress.org) geeks: If you’re one of the small handful of people who’s subscribed to the Smorgasblog feed, I’m...
View ArticleFive years of WordPress: a love note
This entry is part 13 of 18 in the series Poetics and technologyVia Negativa passed an important milestone here on April 1. It was on that date in 2006 that my geek cousin Matt and I completed the move...
View ArticleWordPress and my grandfather’s tool shop
It occurs to me that I like to tinker with WordPress installations in the very same way that my late grandfather used to putter around in his shop. He and Grandma spent the summers here when I was a...
View ArticleAt play in the fields of Google
This entry is part 15 of 18 in the series Poetics and technologyUPDATE (9/1/11): I’ve decided to end my use of Google+ due to Google’s intransigence over its identity policy. One Facebook is enough!...
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watch on YouTube Yes, Via Negativa is back, thanks to these folks. Man, I love the WordPress community. Splitting my WordPress export file into small enough pieces to import allows me to start anew...
View ArticleAbout the new look
Visitors to Via Negativa in the last few hours may have noticed some differences. I’m experimenting with a new theme (that’s the design template, for you non-WordPressers) which, though very similar to...
View ArticleChanges at the Morning Porch
Tinkering with WordPress sites can be a lot of fun, but often doesn’t produce visible differences as far as site visitors are concerned. This morning’s tinkerings with The Morning Porch, however, have...
View ArticleNew commenting system
Just a brief housekeeping note: I’m experimenting with a new commenting system here to try and reduce the number of automated spam comments that come in. As a side benefit(?), you can now log in from...
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