Reflexivity

I got spammed the other night – somebody’s program went through and added porn-site comments to every single posting. Ben hooked me up with MT-Blacklist which should help me not get spammed like that again and got rid of most of the commenst. Some of them are, however, so deeply embedded (after other legitimate comments?) that we can’t quite seem to get at them. It looks like they are interfering with my editing privileges? sigh Ben just left to kayak in Nova Scotia, so I may be stuck with those nasties for awhile.

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some people really are earning some income from blogs! I doubt I’ve got quite the public persona – too dry and “objective” – to make the cut, but what I have been trying to do is provide access to live events (like the mentoring project). This is a key variation on what most bloggers do, as described by Jennifer 8. Lee in the NY Times:
“The question facing many of the bloggers, who do most of their work without venturing from their desks, is how exactly they will cover a live convention. Most built their followings by ferreting out interesting but obscure information or by providing commentary on events and on news coverage of those events.
“What we don’t usually do is talk to primary sources,” said Tom Burka, a lawyer in New York City, who maintains a satirical blog at TomBurka.com. “We’ve never been put in this position as bloggers to have this kind of access.”
I’ve been playing with this in terms of interpreter education and research as well.

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my learning curve is wicked slow. sigh. Anyway, now I know about this technology to get updates on favorite blogs, I’m starting to collect ‘em seriously. This one by Josh Maratin will make the cut.
~ thanks Bill!

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NetNewsWire (rss client for Mac OS X)

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don’t forget to order the clip-on case….

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Gonna check out this folk to try and get my camcorder fixed. Been procrastinating too long.
http://www.camcorder-repairxpress.com/
Also trying to get a wide angle lens so I can get more people in the frame. Talking with a rep from ibmega who also suggested a fisheye lens for the widest possible view but it puts everything in a bubble, so it loses a lot of visual quality. Supposedly this one I’m ordering will give me about 50% more width. Hopefully that will do it!

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Robert Jenson alerts us to Fahrenheit 9-11’s subtle racism, such as the images shown of nations depicted in the ‘coalition of the willing’ (which did make me uncomfortable) and it’s overemphasis on the Bush administration as if US national policy hasn’t always been to subvert any government that doesn’t agree with “us” using any means necessary.
Thanks again to Eric Hamako on the social justice listserv.

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Saw Being John Malkovich (finally!). Wild. If such were truly possible – my consciousness transported into someone else’s body – I don’t think my subjectivity would be unaffected because everyone would relate to and interact with the new body differently. I would have entered a new intersubjective field and this would affect my own perception of self…
The film centers on (the character) Craig’s obsessions – puppeteering and Maxine – not his whole intrasubjective experience. It makes me wonder if externally perceived and/or internally experienced individual “uniqueness” can be so reduced – a sort of “law” of subjectivity?

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Reading this amazing book, Where the World Ended: Re-unification and Identity in the German Borderland by Daphne Berdahl.
She quotes Gupta and Ferguson (1992:18): “we want to contend that the notion of borderlands is a more adequate conceptualization of the ‘normal’ locale of the postmodern subject” (p. 6). Berhdahl continues: “In this view, the borderland is as much a metaphor as a physical space, or what Roger Rouse has called ‘an alternative cartography of social space’ (1991:9).
“[The borderland] is a site of cultural confrontation, articulation, and, to a large extent, penetration, where struggles over the production of cultural meanings occur in the context of asymmetrical relations between East and West” (Berdahl, p. 9).
While Berdahl is studying a particular and specific geophysical location (the town of Kella), the concepts upon which she founds her analysis could apply to cyberspace and other locations as well.

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