Apr
7
Curiosities
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Women May Be Sniffing Out Biologically-relevant Information From Underarm Sweat
Schmidt Tells Newspaper Execs: I’m From Google, and I’m Here to Help
Feb
25
Curiosities
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Google Explains Watery Mystery of Atlantis
Poetry Bench Stolen From Bethesda
Brain Hub Links Music, Memory and Emotion
Nov
19
The Poegles Movement
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At Poegles.com we keep a keen eye on Google. We’re fascinated by an article today on CNET about its sponsorship, along with Facebook, of an event in New York about youth activism, December 3-5. Other sponsors “include the U.S. Department of State, MTV, Access 360 Media, and start-up Howcast–the event hopes to ‘find (the) best ways to use digital media to promote freedom and justice, and counter violence, extremism, and oppression.’” We’d love to turn poegles into a movement, or make it part of a movement. Perhaps the nascent movement to reconsider the idea of ownership of creative materials.
Nov
16
Speak to Google
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The New York Times reports that Google has launched a voice recognition application for the iPhone that allows users to call Google and conduct a search verbally. Users “can place the phone to their ear and ask virtually any question, like ‘Where’s the nearest Starbucks?’ or ‘How tall is Mount Everest?’ The sound is converted to a digital file and sent to Google’s servers, which try to determine the words spoken and pass them along to the Google search engine.”
So, poegling can now arguably join the oral poetry tradition that produced works of anonymous authorship like Beowulf, the Homeric epics, and much of the world’s folk literature. The poetics of orality- brought to you by Google.
Related: see Mary Karr’s Poet’s Choice column in the Washington Post today. “Poetry’s roots in sacred song are undeniable. Native American hunters around a fire praised the Great Spirit for sending buffalo. In other cultures, tillers of the soil begged a cloudless sky to split open and loose down rain. I would rank Robert Bly’s translations of Kabir — a 15th-century Indian ecstatic poet raised Muslim and infused with wisdom from both the Sufis and Hindus — up there with the Hebrew Psalms and the Song of Solomon.”
