Journals, K-Logs, Filters, and Hubs
Krista writes: In Bridging the Gap: A Genre Analysis of Weblogs, Susan Herring and her group seem to have developed a working schema that classifies blogs as k-logs (knowledge-logs), journals, and filters. Most people seem to work along these lines, and some (like Van Dijck) differentiate between diaries and journals. The thing is, I don’t [...]
...read moreCat Blogging
I didn’t cheat on this quiz, really. It has everything to do with me being a talker and never able to shut up or notice myself interrupting a speaker. I also have the habit of completely switching topics and derailing a completely viable consersation into something else entirely. You are a Maine Coon! You are [...]
...read moreTo Read: “Will in the World”
Is it summer yet? The Shakespeare class is going well enough — or would be if the prof hadn’t agreed to the 7:30am class time, or didn’t turn out the lights and play quiet, wordy movies of Shakespearean plays, or if that person behind me didn’t lay a stank morning fart every day as though [...]
...read moreFin: Skully Bag
I finally finished the Skully bag tonight after fighting with it for at least two months, a project undertaken to use up the masses of super-thick wool I had from a previous failed project. This is a picture of the final blocking process – very precise, as you can see. I basically made a massive [...]
...read moreIraqi Woman On the Iraq Elections
She says, “women are the new victims of Islamic groups intent on restoring a medieval barbarity.” I am an Iraqi woman, and I am boycotting Sunday’s elections. Women who do vote will be voting for an enslaved future. Surely, say those who support these elections, after decades of tyranny, here at last is a form [...]
...read moreSplash!
I finally completed the splash page for Krista, thereby ending a long web project I undertook for her but was too tired to finish. Luckily Krista has awesome taste in graphics – funnily enough, she hadn’t noticed her penchant for bird pictures until I pointed it out to her. A few more tweaks at her [...]
...read moreThe Human Body is a Strange Thing
I went to my friend Lori’s house yesterday to sit around and watch crap TV. We watched a bunch of reality shows and shows about reality shows, drank a couple of glasses of wine and ate some homemade chili. Some other people stopped by and we all watched “Bullworth” together, lamenting the lack of honesty [...]
...read moreXX up for a Koufax
XX is up for a Koufax award for their reframing of the “Where are all the women bloggers?” stupidity. Go vote for them. Lord knows I’m not going to win anything. Again.
...read moreTwo Must-Reads
Tired of your musings on parenthood being dismissed as so much fluff? Clancy writes in response to a NYTimes article on parenting blogs for which she was interviewed. I was interviewed for this story because part of my dissertation research focuses on women’s weblogs, many of whom are mothers. When David Hochman was talking to [...]
...read moreOld Mastheads
R@d@r wants to see some of my old mastheads. Here are some of my favorites.
...read moreDraft?: Uncle Sam Wants You
Conspiracy theories be damned. From Rolling Stone: Richard Flahavan, spokesman for Selective Service, tells Rolling Stone that preparing for a skills-based draft is “in fact what we have been doing.” For starters, the agency has updated a plan to draft nurses and doctors. But that’s not all. “Our thinking was that if we could run [...]
...read moreLetter to the Editor Update
My letter to the editor was printed today. Of course they would take the most provocative (remember it’s Indiana) line in the letter and use it as the title: “Isn’t a queer dollar just as green?” And Linnaeus, you will be pleased to know that they edited out that pesky apostrophe (Word, Mac). I hate [...]
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