BurningbirdSometimes I read something that reaches out of the page and touches me between the eyes; the touch vibrates throughout my body as if I were a wire strung between pegs, played by someone with infinitesimally deft skill. Jeff Ward: In the winter of 1989 I started experimenting with infrared flash photography. The success I […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A scant two weeks ago I bid you all a tearful farewell, and now here I am again, in your face, on your blogrolls (I hope, still), and cluttering up weblogs. com. Wait, though! Before you dismiss me as yet another weblogging addict (holding up cardboard sign saying ‘Links for […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Doc Searls has me pegged when he says that I’m a Lefty, though I agree with him that being libertarian is the only way to go with the Net. (Or better yet, anarchy on the Net, all the way.) How far left am I? I’m so far left that I’d come full circle […]
There’s some form of mystic associated with writing professionally that, in some ways, I don’t understand. It doesn’t exist with, say, web development — there are scores of web page designers and developers who would be appalled at having to do what they do as a hobby, as a job, day in and day out. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. What a marvelous party this has been, and what wonderful people I’ve met, but it’s time, and past, for me to move on. This posting will be Burningbird’s last. I wasn’t sure how to close the weblog down. Should I just quit abruptly? Spelling out “GOOD-BYE” with no hint of […]