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Weblogging

Popularity is not synonymous with respect

Recovered from the Wayback Machine I like the questions Gina raises on the New Words event, and my previous post about it–especially the question, What if being visible isn’t the value that weblog authors (especially women) glean from their sites?. This really gets to the heart of this issue, doesn’t it? Do we want weblogging popularity? Or do […]

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Diversity Weblogging

No, that’s not true

Recovered from the Wayback Machine From David Weinberger I found out about a “Blogging for Women and Girls” workshop in Boston. According to the event description: Blogging is emerging a powerful opinion-making force, but though the technology is fairly cheap and widely available, most blogs are still written by men. This workshop will teach women and girls the basics of […]

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Political Voting

Scared into voting

I recovered this from the Wayback Machine in 2023. Boy, I don’t agree with it now. After the loss of women’s rights, rights for members of the LGBTQ+ community, rights for people of color…people had better be scared into voting. — Michelle Malkin points out a flyer making the rounds here in Missouri that …includes a 1960s photograph of a […]

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Weather

Screwy weather

I was reading today in Prairie Point about the Missouri Earthquake of 1811. I had not heard of this before, so checked online and found that there was a series of earthquakes that hit the Mississippi Valley region in 1811 and 1812, and which geologists believe were the most damaging and widespread earthquakes to hit the country. […]

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Writing

What is good journalism

Recovered from the Wayback Machine Taking a break from ‘what is good radio’, I wanted to point out what I consider to be good journalism. Dave Winer is on a tear against the professional news organizations because of an appearance of Jon Stewart on Crossfire. I listened to a recording of this (managing not to hotlink directly to […]