It's called One Minute Writer. The aim is that each day a new topic is posted onto the blog. Contributors have 60 seconds to respond, thus keeping replies short and sweet. There's even a link to a You Tube 60 second countdown clock.
Anyway, as it happened, yesterday's topic was technology. I thought it would be interesting to try to compress my ideas, and get them written down in under a minute. What came out was a Haiku-esque poem.
I like the idea of enforced brevity, as someone prone to wanting to play with language and use more words than necessary, when given the opportunity.
One Minute Writer is a great concept, that challenges and embraces the data saturated world we inhabit. I recommend trying it out, or at the very least, having a browse through some of the entries.
Here was mine about technology:
Mobile phone,
Tactile to touch,
Brings Web to Palm,
Fingers caress
While mind wanders.
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