Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Kevin Marks: I’ve said before that the net is large, and contains multitudes, and thus what you find in it is what you look for. Like Caliban, raging at your reflection is counterproductive. Dave Rogers finds hierarchies. David Weinberger finds collaborators. Shelley Powers finds, er, something that she disapproves of. Yup, that’s the […]
Category: Culture
Proofs
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Several people have been involved in a discussion around the question: do links subvert hierarchies. It started with Doc Searls (Linkers page). Then Dave Rogers comments (Linkers page), kicking off the following flurry of cross-weblog linking: Original Mike Warot (Linkers Page) Wirearchy (Linkers Page) David Weinberger (Linkers Page) Sean Coon (Linkers Page) Mark Bernstein (Linkers Page) Forthcoming (Linkers Page) Indefinite […]
Blogrolls redux
Lest anyone think that I’m hoping to get listed in the weblog roll of the Women’s Media Center, perish the thought from your mind. If anything, this just demonstrates, to me, the evils of blogrolls–their divisiveness and their arbitrary exclusivity (those with friendly neighborhood weblog rolls excepted–don’t hit me). Especially when used with a site […]
Feminists and other snobs
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My appreciations for Frank Paynter for including me with other fine company in his recommendations of women webloggers for the Women’s Media Center. I, like others, was also left rather breathless by the sweeping arrogance of the site’s byline: The WMC website is the only place for news on women; links to women […]
Taken
“Obviously, your not from my south because down here we hate gay people and we hate your beliefs about this subject Shelley! Oh and I don’t have sex with my horse and obviously your bible isn’t baptist!” I laughed when I read this, thinking to myself, “You can’t pay someone to write words such as […]
