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Every greeting, question, query, inquiry & search; <br>
Every greeting, question, query, inquiry & search; <br>
Every spam, phish, & mass-mail flyer flogging the merch; <br>
Every spam, phish, & mass-mail flyer flogging the merch; <br>
Every interrogation, excoriation, evisceration &demolition; <br>
Every interrogation, excoriation, evisceration & demolition; <br>
Every thread, burn, sick burn, everything anyone just left here to sink in; <br>
Every thread, sick burn, everything anyone just left here —  <br>
Every cry for help; offer to help, refusal to help, every play to the crowd; <br>
Let ''that'' sink in; <br>
Every ping-back, come-back, wise-crack & hot-take <br>  
Every cry for help; offer to help, refusal to help, <br>
Every precis, submission, footnote & annotation,
Every self-serve, grand-stand, own-book talk & play to the crowd; <br>
Every careful articulation and throw-away comment;  
Every comment on the blog by whoever was wowed; <br>
Every ping-back, come-back, wise-crack & hot-take; <br>  
Every precis, submission, footnote & annotation;
Every careful articulation & each throw-away comment;  
Every like, smiley, thumbs-up, thumbs-down, chin-scratch & heart;
Every like, smiley, thumbs-up, thumbs-down, chin-scratch & heart;
Every helpful, not-helpful, retweet or share —  
Every helpful, not-helpful, retweet or share —  


As long as it was captured
As long as it was ''captured'' on digital flypaper


Then rdeceased, then stripped, dried out, expired, and ''gutted''.
Then deceased, then stripped, dried out, expired, and ''gutted''.


Gutted of its context, its personal genealogy — its ''life'': these metaphors are dead, expired, shuffled off the mortal coil and with the choir eternal — embalmed, denuded of circumstance, emotional state, timbre and nuance; sanded down and its serial numbers and identifiers removed; genericised, blended and bunched into a warm, brown [[entropic]] emulsion that clogs and congeals.
Gutted of its context, its personal genealogy — its ''life'': these metaphors are dead, expired, shuffled off the mortal coil and with the choir eternal — embalmed, denuded of circumstance, emotional state, timbre and nuance; sanded down and its serial numbers and identifiers removed; genericised, blended and bunched into a warm, brown [[entropic]] emulsion that clogs and congeals.

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The great agglomeration.

Every exchange, conversation, chat, chat-up line, rant, rave, jibe & troll;
Every miscued punchline, dad joke, cracker joke, every happy hols & rick roll;
All rock & roll
Every greeting, question, query, inquiry & search;
Every spam, phish, & mass-mail flyer flogging the merch;
Every interrogation, excoriation, evisceration & demolition;
Every thread, sick burn, everything anyone just left here —
Let that sink in;
Every cry for help; offer to help, refusal to help,
Every self-serve, grand-stand, own-book talk & play to the crowd;
Every comment on the blog by whoever was wowed;
Every ping-back, come-back, wise-crack & hot-take;
Every precis, submission, footnote & annotation; Every careful articulation & each throw-away comment; Every like, smiley, thumbs-up, thumbs-down, chin-scratch & heart; Every helpful, not-helpful, retweet or share —

As long as it was captured on digital flypaper

Then deceased, then stripped, dried out, expired, and gutted.

Gutted of its context, its personal genealogy — its life: these metaphors are dead, expired, shuffled off the mortal coil and with the choir eternal — embalmed, denuded of circumstance, emotional state, timbre and nuance; sanded down and its serial numbers and identifiers removed; genericised, blended and bunched into a warm, brown entropic emulsion that clogs and congeals.

This is the petrol that feeds the engines of big data.

See also