Computer Interface

As I have already posted in wordcurrents, I am attempting to dictate my posts instead of type them. While dictation has the advantage of allowing me to rest my poor aching hands, it has the disadvantage of creating barrier to my imagination. I have noted in the past that my handwritten work is different from my typed work. Learning to dictate without this barrier is a little bit like learning how to drive on the opposite side of the road in a foreign country, or learning how to draw with your foot controlling the pen instead of your hand.

I believe that dictation will take over as an interface for computers particularly when the computer is a handheld phone. It just makes sense. The fact that we still type most of our entries into computers makes clear in the fact that we really are in the Model T age of computers.

In another about-face, I have decided that I will no longer attempt to post every single day, as this is getting in the way of a novel I am working on; however, I will still post fairly often, perhaps more often in prose. Perhaps this will improve the level at which I am writing poetry in my blog.

One interesting thing that has occurred during my hiatus over the summer while I was not posting at all, is that I note I have had pretty well the same number of visits to the website as I had when I was posting on a daily basis. Not surprisingly, most of those visits were to my theatre reviews. Of course, people search for what they already know: they don't know that my poems are here (at least, they certainly are not pre-aware of the titles of my poems to search for them, unless I start using titles that are already in the public awareness).