Comments on: Ethereal Phrases http://www.netpoetic.com/2009/08/ethereal-phrases/ exploring digital poetry and electronic literature Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:33:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: eabigelow http://www.netpoetic.com/2009/08/ethereal-phrases/comment-page-1/#comment-127 eabigelow Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:25:25 +0000 http://netpoetic.com/?p=409#comment-127 Yes, this is interesting. I, too, am mesmerized by my site stats. I often use specifics URLs to link to my work, and my favorite of these is LordsPrayerThe.com, which leads to the piece "Lord's Prayer, The." I love the thought of someone searching for that word string, or typing in that URL, and reaching a site where the Lord's Prayer is deconstructed, and then reconstructed into a new poem. I am sure some people are disturbed, and outraged. Another of my favorites is "DeepPhilosophicalQuestions.com," which is a popular search string on Google. Many of my visitors arrive at that URL and find the piece "Deep Philosophical Questions," which is anything but that. Finally, I-Pledge.org is another URL which people follow, only to find a site where I offer them the opportunity to rewrite the Pledge of Allegiance. In short, using URLs in this way can be subversive, and fun. People are searching for one thing, and find something totally unexpected.... Yes, this is interesting. I, too, am mesmerized by my site stats. I often use specifics URLs to link to my work, and my favorite of these is LordsPrayerThe.com, which leads to the piece “Lord’s Prayer, The.” I love the thought of someone searching for that word string, or typing in that URL, and reaching a site where the Lord’s Prayer is deconstructed, and then reconstructed into a new poem. I am sure some people are disturbed, and outraged.

Another of my favorites is “DeepPhilosophicalQuestions.com,” which is a popular search string on Google. Many of my visitors arrive at that URL and find the piece “Deep Philosophical Questions,” which is anything but that.

Finally, I-Pledge.org is another URL which people follow, only to find a site where I offer them the opportunity to rewrite the Pledge of Allegiance.

In short, using URLs in this way can be subversive, and fun. People are searching for one thing, and find something totally unexpected….

]]> By: Davin Heckman http://www.netpoetic.com/2009/08/ethereal-phrases/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Davin Heckman Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:13:22 +0000 http://netpoetic.com/?p=409#comment-124 What a great piece! I especially like "spartan royal mansion/ getty images license compliance/ best frank zappa guitar solos/ moment instant minute second exists gone/ 100 ways to ask youre mum if a friend can sleep/ to hear a noise in dream..." When I started Reconstruction, we were always tracking our stats. And, my co-editor, Matthew Wolf-Meyer, kept a list of some of the more bizarre strings. We wrote an editorial on the experience: Keywords in the Post-Mechanic Codex http://reconstruction.eserver.org/022/keywords.htm One thing that made me very happy was the idea that somebody was on the web searching for something very specific, and instead found some kind of essay or book review. I don't know if they stopped to read it... but I like to imagine that they did, and perhaps, in some way, our journal was able to broaden their mind in an unlikely direction. What a great piece! I especially like “spartan royal mansion/ getty images license compliance/ best frank zappa guitar solos/ moment instant minute second exists gone/ 100 ways to ask youre mum if a friend can sleep/ to hear a noise in dream…”

When I started Reconstruction, we were always tracking our stats. And, my co-editor, Matthew Wolf-Meyer, kept a list of some of the more bizarre strings. We wrote an editorial on the experience:

Keywords in the Post-Mechanic Codex
http://reconstruction.eserver.org/022/keywords.htm

One thing that made me very happy was the idea that somebody was on the web searching for something very specific, and instead found some kind of essay or book review. I don’t know if they stopped to read it… but I like to imagine that they did, and perhaps, in some way, our journal was able to broaden their mind in an unlikely direction.

]]> By: heliopod http://www.netpoetic.com/2009/08/ethereal-phrases/comment-page-1/#comment-123 heliopod Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:25:06 +0000 http://netpoetic.com/?p=409#comment-123 I too revel in my statistic addiction. Sad and wonderful really, as you can spy on others exploring your work. But then without that tool...you might never know the impact or spread your work attracts. And so then I checked my statistics for search strings and all my most popular ones are more than boring. It's either my name, or any number of combinations with the word game. And NetPoetic hasnt been alive long enough to get the really interesting strings yet. Although we did get: growing up in the 1990's poem tia in magazines cheers, Jason I too revel in my statistic addiction. Sad and wonderful really, as you can spy on others exploring your work. But then without that tool…you might never know the impact or spread your work attracts.

And so then I checked my statistics for search strings and all my most popular ones are more than boring. It’s either my name, or any number of combinations with the word game.

And NetPoetic hasnt been alive long enough to get the really interesting strings yet. Although we did get:

growing up in the 1990′s poem

tia in magazines

cheers, Jason

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