BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I initiated an email discussion today that ended up focused on women and weblogging. Without going into particulars, I challenged the members of the group to find their G Quotient, or Gender Quotient: For the last one hundred posts, count the number of times you linked to a male weblogger, […]
Today was a quiet day, more mist than rain, more grey than stormy. I set out for the bird sanctuary in the Northwest corner of the state, but hadn’t gone more than an hour when I realized that I had forgotten my wallet. With my driver’s license. I carefully turned around, and just as carefully […]
Congratulations to Sheila Lennon who will be on the Flogging the Blogs: Debating Best Practices panel at the ONA conference in Chicago. She joins some well known luminaries such as Andrew Sullivan, Tom Regan, Jeff Jarvis, and Esther Dyson as they take apart publications and their online presence. Sheila has never been in Chicago before and is […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. David Weinberger responded to my discussion yesterday about semantic web compared to Semantic Web: So, if the semantic web means only that we’re learning to understand ourselves better on the Internet, or even that we often adopt similar terms and rhetoric, then, yes, the Web is constantly semantically webbing itself. And if […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I only show comments on recent posts in my sidebar, but I may change because I’ve been getting a lot of interesting comments on older posts lately. I think the pickup drivers who have a confederate flag in the back of their trucks have discovered weblogging. For instance, in Ladylike Behavior, […]