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Just Shelley Weblogging

Special, special friends

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I arrived in St. Louis during rush hour tonight, pretty tired. As I was waiting for 1400+ emails to download (most junk, natch), I tripped out to my favorite weblogs. That’s when I discovered Jonathon’s Keep the Bird Burning campaign. I am too tired tonight to do this justice, but Jonathon, and […]

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Just Shelley Weblogging

Blogging by the Bay

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m sitting in an Internet café overlooking the Bay trying to clean up an inordinate amount of email, most of it junk. Notice to friends, one an all — when did it become a regular thing to send emails out every time you post a new weblog posting? Believe me […]

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Writing

Shaped by the Audience

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When introducing the audience as a key component of weblog writing, Steve wrote: We’re not writing an account of our lives just as a record of our lives, we’re trying to say something about our lives, and that can’t be done if we stick only to ‘facts’: the facts that will […]

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Writing

Audience Coming

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m finding it difficult to respond to Steve’s earlier posting on ‘learning to read’, because there’s so much to say about it that I find myself stuck at the gates, not sure which way to respond. In particular, he’s raised an issue I’ve found myself sensitive to lately: the constraints audience expectations […]

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Just Shelley

Heading Out

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Well, I leave in about 6 hours. I should go to bed. Not sure when I’ll be back. Not sure if I’ll be back. If not, I’ll miss you all.