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Social Media

Sex and DIGG

Melinda Casino points to this longish, well documented essay, Why are there so few women on Digg by Academic Pointillism. The author is a Digg subscriber who wonders at the lack of women participating in the site. One of the possible reasons given for the lack of women is that many of the stories are male centric. I checked […]

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Culture

Nigerian sight and sound

Dare Obasanjo posted music videos and photos from his recent trip home to Nigeria. The music is both English and Yoruba, the language of the Yoruba people, and one of the languages spoken in Nigeria. English is the official language. Dare referred to the music as Nigerian hip-hop and R&B. The first video definitely has a hip-hop feel, including […]

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Writing

More Mark

I prefer the preface in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: NOTICE PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narra- tive will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance. […]