The creative urge has been working overtime recently since I started writing flash fiction or micro-fiction.
I’m aiming to put up a new story every day.
Check out how I’m keeping up with this target at my free online flash fiction site.
Comments are welcome 
Bye for now
Rob
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Hi, Rob! Thanks for taking the time to read and comment upon my article ‘Pilosophy…’ I’m new to this blogginh mularky so all comments welcome. I hope you will drop in again.
I’ve had a quick whizz around your online world in my own clumsy fashion so I’ve probably distorted your stats for today.
Re. your comments about galaxies crashing… try not to worry about it too much; you can’t affect it so what’s really important is how we live with it. Try not to think that blackholes shooting deadly particles and killing sentient beings - this is entirely possible BUT it may be that the bh’s are discharging into currently unoccupied areas of space (I’m told that space is a big place) AND that all that matter and energy is in fact the spark of a Big Bang for generations of sentient beings yet to be.
On a more mundane level - what is a ‘news aggregator’? Should I have one and if so, how do I get one?
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Hi Paul
It’s good to hear from you.
Problem with me and worrying is that, after about 30 seconds I can’t resist making a joke about it. Flippant should have been my second name
A news aggregator is a system that monitors rss enabled sites eg blogs. When a new entry is posted on any of the sites being monitored, the news aggregator goes and gets a couple of paragraphs or sometimes the whole article and pulls it into the news aggregator.
Thats why it’s called a ‘news’ aggregator - because it drags (aggregates) into a convenient place news you want to hear.
There are online aggregators (eg http://www.bloglines.com/ - free!) and aggregators that work on your computer desktop. I use Ubuntu not Windows (it’s a version of Linux) and my aggregator works on my desktop. When I find a site I want to keep in touch with (like yours) I just tell it to add the sites rss or acorn feed. It’s dead easy really. Windows has similar desktop systems but you might have to pay for them somewhere along the line. (Alternative names are news reader, rss reader etc)
There’s no limit to the sites you can keep track of (apart from your own sanity, of course :-))
Hope this helps.
Like you, I’m fairly new to blogging but am fairly old to web sites. Blogs, though, I think are good for lots of reasons.
A bit of advice I was given recently was not to use comment moderation as it stops people commenting. I had it on all my sites, previously. When I removed comment moderation, I started getting lots of comments almost immediately, which is lots more fun.
If you want to just chat, as opposed to deep talk about a themed blog, CafeHopcott.com seems to have a following that is quite active and more than a little crazy (great fun).
(It’s my response to people who came on my sites and said aaaarghh … too many blogs. We don’t know which to go to to say hello)
Hope all this helps … Must go …. My aggregator is aggregating furiously.
(hums)
So much to do, working the whole day long …
All best
Rob
Oi Rob!
Is it me or have you been lax in your daily fiction?
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Swirling inside the cerebral cortex with the dead pigeons lying amongst the used condoms and dirty needles. The leopard seal snaps his jaws, sinking teeth into the blubbery belly of an emperor penguin. This is poetry. The scarlet ink scrawls across the virgin snow. The last words of an alcoholic Japanese painter. I listen and nod and think that perhaps this is enough. The squalor fills my eyes and ears and nose. The rain taps the roof and the halogen light flickers. I hold his hand as he slips away. The ectoplasm shivers somewhere unknown. I flick the ash from my cigarette and spit into the gutter.