#amtweeting

Though I took myself off of Facebook until I finish the masters degree I'm working on, I am still on Twitter (@jessdragonfly in case you are interested). However, I haven't taken the time to figure out how to use this social medium effectively. Hashtags, for one thing, I understand conceptually but cannot figure out how to use to any effect or advantage.

Now help is at hand. Writer Susan Noble, at her blog Into Another World, has explained hashtags and made a list of ones that will help writers find one another. Check it our if you have been as clueless as I've been concerning hashtag mania.


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Recent Discoveries

Unbelievable Facts is a great name to follow on Twitter. Yesterday UnBFacts posted something I will never forget: "swims" upside down is still "swims." Actually, in all caps it looks even more flippable: "SWIMS".

Also, friend and poet Mari recommended the poetry of Cynthia Cruz last week when discussing books received for Christmas, and by chance I happened upon an interview with Cynthia Cruz in the Prosody archives (Prosody is a now-defunct literary talk show hosted by poet Jan Beatty and writer Ellen Wadey, which can still be accessed on iTunes--scroll down to March 20, 2007.) You can also listen to the interview here (no scrolling required). It's an old interview, but you can hear Cruz read from her first book, and she and Beatty also discuss some of her themes, including veiled violence in childhood.