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published: June 4th, 2009

How to Use The Search Engines to Find poetry content

This article was produced as a result of a test that enabled me to discover that whilst the web is second nature to most users there are still a large number of people who are interested in poetry and have not yet mastered the art of using the internet.

The web has made it easy to find content about poetry quickly. Just a few years back you needed to take the whole morning at the library skimming through hundreds of books.

Today you can simply take 5 minutes or less and just like that you have a huge categorized and highly relevant list to choose from about poetry or specific topics of the same subject.

With so much information presented by search engines the speed and efficiency of using the web can deteriorate if you don’t know how to use it the right way.

Why not take a few minutes to read through these few points I present below to help you with you your search. I have written these such that I do not waste your time but add into your quest to finding the best information and content online. To some this may be just a refresher “course” but I still do encourage you to read on.

Currently the most popular search engine is Google so the tips are more focused on Google.com but you can use them on Yahoo.com.

Use of commas in your search query can help you narrow you search to the pages with the exact information you want. For instance to find a college course about poetry, simply enter “poetry courses”, For a career search on this topic just type “poetry careers”. This will return pages that have the exact information.

You also have an option to use the “+” operator. That is, if you enter a term like “documentary about poetry”+ “poetry books” will produce results that have both terms appearing somewhere within the page. 

My last tip is simply to search within one reliable site. You can do this by entering the operator “site:” at the beginning of your search followed by the site name and your keyword.Using this one will enable you to search through a site of your choice only.

Armed with this information there is no reason to spend hours searching for that information no matter how rare it is, whether it is about your internet in – poetry or any kind of content you may be interested in like reverse search cell phone number.

Now take some time to enjoy the great content offered by this site before testing your newly found skills.

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published: June 1st, 2009

Life, Class and Correspondence

How one communicates with world is an immense indication of one’s class. Although class has a great deal to do with how one carries oneself, perhaps even how one dresses, a keen barometer of this elusive thing called class is correspondence. The jaunty, and often garbled, text message — even the casual email — fails to do justice to the notion of class. With the tactile sensation of paper in hand, of embossed decorations, even a personalized stationary, you are just communicating. Mere communication is not correspondence.

A letterpress note, signed by a beloved friend or relative is something that will pass on through generations. The case is not even being made for handwriting a correspondence, indeed it is completely acceptable to type your missive, as long as you hand write a salutation and a valediction. The purpose, to be sure, is to communicate, but to do so with the direct intention of creating something that will stand the test of time. A deleted email or text message is as disposable as the world we live in.

We instinctively covet things — items, baubles that we can cherish and pass down. The letterpress has survived longer than the automobile, aviation, and even movable type. The letterpress may even outlive the Internet. We shall see. The point is a tool so ancient and revered is one that has survived precisely because we are creatures that seek out heirlooms. A beautifully crafted sheet of paper is no different. It is the exception to find a married couple that does not have at least one copy of their wedding invitations under glass.

We are creatures, divinely curious and hopeful, who need things to remind us of one another. You cannot cherish an email. You cannot frame a text message. For messages that truly matter, which will resound beyond a mere mortals lifetime, something more is required. Indulge in the wisdom of your elders and indulge in a set of custom-crafted invitations or stationary. We are feeling creatures, doomed to the beauty of a world that we cannot take with us when we pass.

J.B. Lieberman, the leader of the American Chapel movement in the late twentieth century said it best when he quipped: “YOU can print! You can do real printing, even if now you can’t tighten a nut, can’t boil water, can’t tell type from tape, live in one room with three other people, and have to hoard your money. It’s simple, it’s fun, it’s useful, and you’ll have something to show!” To be sure, to have something to show is the key, not just to your immediate intimates, but also to the generations yet to be born.

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