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BIL and TED’s excellent philosophical differences

March 2nd, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in News by Chris Pommier

TED and ‘Net Controversy

I blogged, with a touch of snarkiness and disbelief, about this year’s TED Conference and TED Prizes on Friday.

The breathtakingly self-aggrandizing and expensive TED Conference is going on right now in Monterey, California. Owned by The Sapling Foundation, a private 501(c)3 nonprofit organization established by Chris Anderson in 1996, TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design.

In researching TED’s background for that blog post, an entire realm of controversy opened up to me. Sarah Lacy, a technology columnist for BusinessWeek based out of Silicon Valley, described her mixed feelings about the problematic relationship of money, elitism, liberalism and activism demonstrated by the structure of the conference.

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All you Literature Lovers:Exclusively Available Here for a Limited TimeFree Poetry! Come and Get It Please

November 27th, 2006 | 1 Comment | Posted in Poetry by Chris Pommier

I’ve been unwilling to post my poetry to this blog as simply a text post, but I’ve wanted to share it with my readers for a while. So, I’ve come up with a compromise. I’ve uploaded and made available for free four of my poems at box.net, a handy little free Ajax-built file hosting/sharing website. They are in .pdf format, so you will need a PDF reader.

I’m going to keep them here and active until December 8th, 2006. If you know any other poetry lovers, or writers (and aren’t we usually one and the same?) please share this post and the link with them. I would love to here from you, as well.

What is strong, what is weak in these poems? What sorts of poetry do you like? Love? Rhymed? Dark? Prose? Found poetry? Share your interests with me and also, if you have any of your own poetry to share, please post a link to it in the comments section, or just email it to me.

Thanks.