Love in the Blogosphere

There has been much moaning of late about the blogosphere's nasty and unforgiving nature. But the blogosphere can be a loving place too... and today being Valentine's Day, cyberspace was in fact awash with love.

Thanks to everybody who contributed their poetic brilliance to the Valentine's Day Sonnet Contest. Extra points to those of you who read your poetry (or other people's) out loud: Nesson/Weinberger, Luisetta Mudie, Lisa Williams, and K.G. Schneider, you now have your voices posted in perpetuity on the Berkman Blog.  Everything there is available as a podcast. Listen to them all. They're absolutely wonderful.

Thanks also to Frank Paynter, John, and Rodger Morrow (whose poem is in the comments section of this post).... and Joi Ito for his haiku (in that same comments section)... and Betsy Devine for her link and picture.  (If I'm missing somebody please don't flame me too harshly...)

We are not going to be sticklers about strict adherence to the sonnet form. Bear hugs and wet kisses to you all... the Gmail invites will be on their way shortly.

As for latecomers: If you've got something great that you haven't gotten around to sharing yet, true love knows no deadlines...

Comments

[Sisyphus]

Victor's Ghost

[Lisa Williams]

I just looked at the RSS feed, and, yes, it does generate the right enclosure statements. That's awesome. I think I remember Dave mentioning on scripting.com that he had hacked in enclosure support to the Manila server, which is a really nice bennie. They're probably one of the few people whose blogging environment supports enclosures (the thing that makes podcasting work) natively right now.

[Ted Gilchrist]

My robot made me do it.

[Lamar Cole]

Love is a path to the heart that knows its own way.