"There's nowhere else to go to create honest conversation about the working world."
So says Jeremy Blachman, writing an opinion piece for the NYTimes about the lack of legal protection for bloggers.
media: August 2005 Archives
SocialText has got me way jazzed. Which I could go to Amsterdam for Democracies Online.
Todd's new band has some CD's if you wangle and beg for 'em. His site, by the way, is shaping up quite nicely: onlineanthology.
My blog was compared today to eat22 and also to the blogger in the Doonesbury strip for pure banality.
yeah baby, bring on the fame! (As if!)
The photographs of his mutilation by white racists helped to galvanize the civil rights movement in the US.
Now, a documentary: The Murder of Emmitt Till.
The violence done then ripples out in waves of emotional and psychic pain. And then we wonder why people are as warped as we often are. Trying to grow straight again Lillian Smith), impossible as its ultimate achievement be, must remain among our highest priorities.
This Vermont (!) writer discusses parallels between animals and humans referring to "the sleeper hit of the summer" "March of the Penguins".
"Functionally, I suspect love is an often temporary chemical imbalance of the brain induced by sensory stimuli that causes us to maintain focus on something that carries an adaptive agenda.
Shemaya and I are hard at work on this article due in a week. We've been prepping (research, discussion) for six months but now it's time to write. We had a glaring weakness and needed a miracle. I put out a call on the AoIR listserv and Lauren sends along her paper that is, without a doubt, the missing link. :-)
Turns out she keeps a blog, too. Here's an entry from a few days ago that is sortof related to our paper topic, Taking your social life with you (and keeping it to yourself), about how to juggle multimedia relationships.
Homer's 32 Ways to Say "doh". Turn on the audio!
"Der", however, is not in the online Homer lexicon. Does he really say it?
Dexus Nexus is going to use a wiki! I'm trying to contain my excitement. :-) Finally, an intentional web-community that will use a weblog and some software called SocialText.
