southern illinois friends may have noticed a large article in the local newspaper, the the southern illinoisan. it was well-written, for the most part, and i want to thank marleen shepherd for the publicity and make a few points.

first, it's time to retract the assertion that i "invented" link poetry. these are actually my own words, and i have been using them for years on poetry site, but the person who invented hypertext is really the person who "invented" it. i am merely its first active practitioner, and even as far as that is concerned, i can hardly believe, even today, that no one else is into it or has really developed it. my wife is the one who pointed out how pompous that expression made me sound, and i didn't really mean it that way...in fact, i wouldn't mind if someone came along and proved me wrong.

second, the article mentioned and listed seven blogs that i have and run; i gave marleen only seven url's but there are actually more...one is entirely a list of people's weblogs; another is for web design and is serving as a repository for links at the moment. there are dozens more at work, and a few left over from the days when i was trying out other servers (i'm still basically very loyal to blogger...

finally i'd like to point out that both poetry showcases are unfinished products; and, as has been stated in this space before, an accident at work has left many of the picture slots, throughout the web and the weblogs, empty. rebuilding has been slow and has taken a bit of time from the other stuff. much of it is, in fact, an unfinished product. such is life on the web...an ongoing thing.