Category Archives: blogging

Theme Construction Ahead

Posted on March 3, 2023 by acline

UPDATE: I’ve settled on a theme for now. So I’m unsticking this post and moving on 🙂 I began Rhetorica in 2002 (following its first iteration as Presidential Campaign Rhetoric 2000) using the Greymatter blogging script. I moved from that … Continue reading →

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Fun With AI: A Matter of Visual Style: Part 2

Posted on March 3, 2023 by acline

I tried a bit different approach on part two of my examination of what ChatGPT can create regarding visual style in documentary film. I asked it to give me some tips on how to incorporate the “decisive moment” to documentary … Continue reading →

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Rhetorica in Portugal

Posted on January 12, 2023 by acline

I wish every member of my massive audience a wonderful New Year! Mine is off to a good start — in Portugal 🙂 I now live in the beautiful town of Aveiro in the north of Portugal on the coast. … Continue reading →

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The Whole Social Media Thing

Posted on November 21, 2022 by acline

With the situation at Twitter (what, exactly, is the situation?), it seems a timely move to reassess my “social media strategy.” The quote marks indicate a certain irony 🙂 Twitter wasn’t doing it for me. Or, rather, I was bad … Continue reading →

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(self) Promotion in the Current Moment

Posted on July 26, 2022 by acline

I used to know how to jump start a blog (soooo 2004) from zero through noticed to important in a matter of weeks. Times have changed. I’m always on the lookout for good publicity photos — whatever those might be … Continue reading →

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