Carl Setzer

Lights move, Left, right, Flowing across screen, deceptively Page-like. Words of greetings, news Of friends, whether across the wall Or apart by hemisphere. Urgency. A dance Based on money's Song.

Energy I waste. Second guessing my past acts. Tormenting my rest.

Paralyze my forward motion. Continuously reviewed; my past. Parse, tear apart, drift away my focus From now, here. Unwilling to be wrong? High standards gone awry? Or just internal schadenfreude? A delight in my own misery. Always my past, Drug forth, tortured. Each fault extracted My anguish revisited; Reborn.

Gaza is erupting into conflict, and my Twitter feed rolls along, snippets hitting every second. I have connections on both sides. One twitter friend in particular is making a point to retweet both sides of this conflict. That morphed into an idea. This idea: a project capturing the myriad sides to a conflict, whether violent, political or cultural. First notion was to actively research, tweeting to the hashtag #AllSides____ (adding the issue in the blank. i.e.: #AllSidesGaza. Spend, say, an hour of focused time just tweeting every article, RTing personal perspective, all into this one stream. My goal? Capturing as many perspectives on that issue as possible in one place. Collating/curating perspectives personal and analytical. I feel a simple hashtag feed, though, isn't enough. Yet I'm unsure what to add. Build some kind of analytic tool? Infographics? Probably would be something to consider after to curation is complete. Or maybe not. If done right, this would become ...