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Time for a plug. I'm pleased to announce that "After Voices," a poetry chapbook by my wife, Jane Rosenberg LaForge, was released in October
by Burning River of Cleveland. Jane has been laboring over these poems for a couple of years. Some people have asked, what is a chapbook? One definition: a short booklet containing poems, ballads or stories.

Jane's chapbook includes 12 poems and an essay arranged around the theme of her father's deafness. (He is already disputing some of the facts. Fun times!)

Jane plans to read some of the poems at a New York University faculty-student reading in the East Village in December.

A hard copy of the chapbook can be ordered online for $6 a copy from Burning River. A PDF version can be downloaded for free (it includes a bonus poem not in the print edition). It will eventually be available as a digital book in epub format from Project Gutenberg.
You can also buy a copy at Visible Voice Books in Cleveland, Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in SoHo, and the McNally-Jackson Bookstore,
also in SoHo.

On the weekend of Oct. 17, the chapbook was released in conjunction with readings at the Morgan Conservatory of Papermaking and Visible Voice. Jane read several of the poems, including my favorites, "Lemons" and "Highway 5 Stockyard," as well as some of her unpublished poetry.

Some poems in the chapbook were previously published in some form or another in La Petite Zine, Burnside Review, Bateau, Makeout Creek, Ottawa Arts Review and Noun Versus Verb. She has also had work published by the Tipton Poetry Journal and Adirondack Review.

(Originally posted at my Wordpress.com blog, palafo.com).

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Right now I'm at #10 on the Listorious most-listed list for Twitter.

That's more than Ev Williams, Twitter, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and Ashton Kutcher. Wow, am I really that famous? Well, no.

Listorious calculates this based on lists that have been added to its site. Most lists added to the site so far are pro or near-pro lists organized by topic, not the lists an average user throws together to follow favorite people. So this is another variation on the "in crowd" or most popular users lists.

A short while ago I was around #85 (also unlikely). So I sorted through the 314+ lists that people have put me on and found some interesting ones to add to the site. And voila...

It will be interesting to compare these list counts in a day or so. Let the games being. (I'm opting out after this.)

Note to those I added: If you don't want your list on the site, it's pretty easy to take it down (or make it private). You can also claim it by logging in, adding some tags and a description.

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Now this is definitely worth having. Retweets by your followers, your
retweets, and peoples' retweets of you.

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Here's what the beta explanation looked like. I'm still working through how this will affect my habits (I retweet a lot) or the look of twitter streams in general. It has not rolled out to any third party clients, and I have only seen one RT in this format by someone else in the wild so far.

There's an invisible RT button that surfaces when your mouse hovers over it, in the same place where you reply to a tweet.

If you follow the person already, I'm not sure that you see the retweet. If you don't, it looks like a normal tweet, with the symbol, and a little message at the bottom. (See previous post). 

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Twitter rolled out the beta retweet feature to me the other day. It
only works on the Web site. I'm still trying to decide if I like it
or not, but it's not out-of-the-box bad; they must have taken some of
the reaction to heart. This is how it looks to me when I retweet
something..

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Either they tweak the design, or I get a better Twitter picture.

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I was at the top of Listorious in a prime location most of the day after Twitter lists came out of beta, but then @Kitson tied me around 9 p.m. and has now bumped me down a notch. Alas. Still, not bad for a list I threw together on a whim the first night of the beta. <Edited to correct dumb "Listerous" typo>

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A shot of the kitchen from the backroom at DBGB, where a friend had
his birthday party.

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Car gets squeezed between tour bus and taxi at 56th St and 7th ave this afternoon. Testing Posterous iPhone app again; not sure why the pix are sideways.

           

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