Why do so many people seem to, in the words of writer
Gina Hyams, "totally heart
Twitter"? (And why, pray tell, do so many use it to describe their lunch?) I am still pondering these and so many other questions.
Who's on twitter? Obama, the BBC, Los Angeles Times, La Jornada,
xensen (that's Right-reading blogger Tom Christensen), poet
E. Ethelbert Miller,
32 Poems (journal), and, well,
Madam Mayo, among about a ba-gillion others.
So far my "tweets" are almost all links to:
---> new Madam Mayo blog posts
---> old Madam Mayo blog posts (e.g., a year ago today)
---> the daily 5 minute writing exercise
---> C.M. Mayo news (publications, readings, workshops)
---> whatever else strikes me as interesting enough to share.
More anon.
Listen and see the videos on MySpace. (Konrad Ratz is one of the leading Maximilian scholars. His latest book, a magnificent series of essays based on extensive original research and translation, is Tras las huellas de un desconocido: Nuevos datos y aspectos de Maximiliano von Habsburgo.)
Highly recommended. (Pair it with Gabriel Zaid's The Secret of Fame: The Literary Encounter in an Age of Distraction. Then take some Alka-Seltzer.) More anon.
Why do so many people seem to, in the words of writer Gina Hyams, "totally heart Twitter"? (And why, pray tell, do so many use it to describe their lunch?) I am still pondering these and so many other questions. 