Technology – Page 12 – the coffee philosopher

Posted on August 30, 2012August 28, 2012 by the coffee philosopher

Thursday Morning Staff Meeting – Do People Still Do That?

Review poetry, that is.

Angkarn Kalayanapong has left the building.

Posted on August 23, 2012August 20, 2012 by the coffee philosopher

Thursday Staff Meeting – The First E-Books Were Made Of Paper

Before the e-book there was…

Something for the entire family.

The value of a Harvard education.

Just give up and die already.

Posted on August 22, 2012August 20, 2012 by the coffee philosopher

Midweek Staff Meeting – Being Sorrowful

I have many of these.

I am less sanguine about the power of this technology to save.

Can’t buy coolness, my friend.

What would you do?

Fighting back against the hipster onslaught.

Posted on August 20, 2012August 17, 2012 by the coffee philosopher

Monday Morning Staff Meeting – Get Off Your Butt & Get The Paper

Or, just saying, you could walk outside and pick one up.

Between the two, or, poets brawl.

So what do I have to do to join?

Want to be a writer? Read the instructions first.

Posted on August 16, 2012August 15, 2012 by the coffee philosopher

Thursday Morning Staff Meeting – Keeping Your Word

Did science fiction break its promises to us?

Poets are the beholders of ideas and the announcers of human experience’s necessary and casual details.

Everybody’s saint.

I’m feeling much better, thank you.

Posted on July 25, 2012July 13, 2012 by the coffee philosopher

Midweek Staff Meeting – I Told You Coffee Was Magic

Even I’m old enough to remember going through dusty, poorly cataloged archives.

Oh, coffee… is there anything you can’t do?

I didn’t enough know library vending machines existed and now they’re already disappearing? What the heck, man!

Espresso… it’s not what you think.

Posted on July 23, 2012July 19, 2012 by the coffee philosopher

Monday Morning Staff Meeting – I’m Afraid I Can’t Let You Do That, Emily

‘Neats’ and ‘scruffies’ in AI research.

Emily Dickinson is not an AI… yet.

Rise of the Tweet!

LA isn’t that bad for dating, but yes, DC is better.

Saved by twitter.

Posted on July 20, 2012July 19, 2012 by the coffee philosopher

Weekend Reading – ‘Flarf.’ That Is all.

When poetry gets so few column inches, should one use any of those inches on negative reviews?

Emma Goldman on political violence.

Flarf vs conceptual poetics.

The ‘creative class’ doesn’t live up to the hype.

E-books take the lead.

Posted on July 17, 2012July 16, 2012 by the coffee philosopher

Tuesday Morning Staff Meeting – #Occupy Literature

Germany not prepared to let books be devoured by Amazon.

Where did science fiction find you?

Yeah, sometimes the government does it better than private industry. Sometimes a lot better.

Should the ban on the publication of Mein Kampf in Germany be lifted?

Posted on July 16, 2012July 13, 2012 by the coffee philosopher

Monday Morning Staff Meeting – Monaco Is Officially The Least Poetic Nation In The World

Tor/Forge (sci fi and fantasy division of Macmillan) has a DRM free e-book store coming.

The Folger Shakespeare Library is releasing its editions as e-books.

You’re not procrastinating quickly enough.

There is simply no poetry in Monaco. None. Zip. Nada.

Who are your poets?