Haiku Contest: It's time for a vote
Posted by: Steve Hamm on January 6, 2006
Thirty plus years ago, Paul Simon asked: Is poetry really dead? I’m here to tell you it is not. We got 33 entries for the BW TechBeat Haiku Contest. The participants included Business Week colleagues and old friends whom I arm-twisted into taking part; a CEO of a tech company (Marc Benioff), a real poet (Kit Robinson), a 9-year-old boy (Ari Fay), and his grandmother.
Now it’s time for the popular vote. Please send in your votes (by number) as comments. There are two categories: Best, and Funniest. Voting ends a week from today. Read on for the full list of the 33:
Heather Green:
1)
Blogs, oh, bloggy blogs
ever changing, ever new,
Now video, blog
Eric Sohn:
2)
Comment spam on blog
Compares unfavorably
To Blue Screen of Death
3)
PortalPlayer chip
The heart of 5G iPods
Keeps boredom at bay
4)
Let's use AJAX for
A haiku generator
Web 2.0 rocks!
5)
Wikipedia
Curry rewrites history
"Podfather", indeed!
B.L.Ochman:
6)
want to blog, compulsively
growing your reputation
or get a real job?
Jim Turner:
7)
Companies should blog
It's the wave of the future
If not wave goodbye
Anonymous:
8)
popular post hits home
my site dies fast and quiet
in monster blogswarm
June Klein:
9)
Mainframe architect.
Needs evolution museum.
Global money biz.
Sarah Lacy:
10)
Open source software
Getting more mainstream every year
Sorry Microsoft
11)
Software IPOs?
Where are they? 2005 only had a few
And few on tap for 2006 :(
Alex Bellinger:
12)
Stop it RSS
Simple yes, but a thousand
feeds give me nosebleeds.
Ari Fay:
13)
green technology
frogs master. when they rule the world
they use it wisely
John R:
(a vote that’s also a haiku, I guess)
14)
Eric Sohn's haiku
about Web 2.0 is
the best so far.
Phil Gomes:
15)
Tech haikus? Pshaw! ...
I've been pitching in haiku ...
For quite a long time ...
David Singer:
16)
Haiku about tech?
Syllables: five, seven, five.
Don't quit your day job.
Anonymous2:
17)
Web 1.0 - Bursted
Web 2.0 - Bloated
jane
Rob Weisman:
18)
A Google PC --
No more climbing through Windows
to compute?
Kit Robinson:
19)
Torrent of data
Forest of zeros and ones
I am on my way
Dave Clark:
20)
P.C.: Boot daily --
The solid, humble mainframe
keeps running for years.
Klim:
21)
i'M a sPaM comMenT
AwEsomE blOg, cLicK herE, wIn cAsH
WhY yoU hAte mE sO?
22)
No spam post blocker?
Thanks for helping my S.E.O
Link, Link, Link, and Link.
23)
RSS is great!
Instead of surfing for news,
I get drowned in it.
24)
I'm tech haiku
for business week contest
I think I will win!
Ari’s Grammy:
25)
Latest techno
gee, it's not just for the young.
Grey heads get it too!
Bob Van L:
26)
would love to haiku blogs
what is the format again
five six seven blog
Marc Benioff:
27)
There is no software.
Live or Dead. Microsoft decides.
There is only software.
Bruce Francis:
28)
Bill’s future is Live
Dead code fills today’s coffers
Microsoft’s tough choice
--
29)
Life at Oracle
Old software must rest
Bingo games, chamomile tea
Larry’s Shady Pines
--
30)
Life at Oracle
Old software must rest
Bingo games, chamomile tea
Safra cashes checks
--
31)
Redwood Shores Elegy
Old software winds down
Bingo games, chamomile tea
Oracle’s grand plan
Steve Baker:
32)
Ancient Paterno
in sultry Miami
grins as dawn nears
Andrew Watson:
33)
Web two point zero
Last year’s catch phrase, this year’s thing
Whatever it means
