Tag: Social media

• Riverboat Sam: “Our President is Singing Like a Canary”

  

  By Riverboat Sam, technical specialist/digital skeptic If brevity is the soul of wit, Twitter is the home of witlessness. The problem as it strikes a very old guy like me is as stated: Twitter is to publication like spitting is to art. OK, I’ll spell it out for you. Not many people are good at off […]

  John Kaufman

  May 16, 2017

  Anti-Tech, Riverboat Sam, Satires

  opinion, politics, satire, Social media, Twitter

• Resist the “Instapoets”: a quick poem for the young

  

  There are some things, like poetry, that cannot come easy if the thing is likely to last. Some advice: don’t enter a building or a poem (or any long-term relationship) that is not carefully constructed for what you risk is deconstruction of all you thought you stood upon– the present fails to slam the past and you fall until you […]

  John Kaufman

  November 9, 2015

  Literary

  humanities, Instapoets, literature, Poetry, Social media

• A Little Digital Simplification

  I decided today to scale-down and simplify The Afternoon Journal, to make it less visually polluting, less, well, digital-looking. The tendency on many websites is to gather and display as much information and graphics as possible, an easy thing to do and over-do. While such aggregating can be convenient, it can also be visually and mentally overwhelming, especially if the […]

  John Kaufman

  February 24, 2014

  Uncategorized

  Internet, opinion, politics, simplicity, Social media, technology, writing