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this is one of those posts…
…in which the blogger notes his/her continued existence, notwithstanding long stretches of silence, and makes excuses to the readership. Like, life continues to be more interesting than the blog, i’m trying to finish a book chapter *about* blogging, and now that I’m past the information-sponge stage of PhD candidature (so I’ve stopped just collecting stuff,…
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LifeWork Balance
hello, blog. I don’t want to sound defensive, because I’m not, but I’m a bit busy with life at the moment, you know, things, and stuff. I’ve been keeping up a bit of socialising for you though, reading other people’s blogs and leaving comments, and I’ve been adding some new del.icio.us links pretty much every…
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on having nothing to say
I’ve been in one of my quiet moods lately – plenty to think about and contemplate, but nothing pressing to say. But if you have a blog (and a million emails to answer) it is hard not to feel pressure from the imagined audience or potential respondent to say something, just to mark presence (kind…
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Announcing…BlogHer
Dana Boyd is getting behind BlogHer – “a network for women bloggers to draw on for exposure, education, and community.” As well as organising a day-long conference on July 30, 2005, through establishing an online hub, BlogHer is “initiating an opportunity for greater visibility, learning and success for individual women bloggers and for the community…
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Brisbane GrogBlogging
As Melissa implies, the highly affordable chilled buckets of Toohey’s extra dry definitely seemed like a good idea at the time, but probably weren’t…
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Friendster+Blogs=[LJ]??
Hmmm, friendster now has blogs, ‘powered’ by TypePad. Totally irrelevant P.S. for Aus TV fans: Am just waiting for Lost to come on, so have the last few minutes of My Restaurant Rules to suffer through, and my God – how drunk was Dicko when interviewing the WA Restaurateurs at the end of a wine-soaked…
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videoblogging starts to hit it
To look at properly later (seems way too interesting to allow myself to play with it now): mefeedia – a web-based videoblog aggregator, and ANTnotTV – funky desktop videoblog aggregator (Mac OS X) – thanks adrian for keeping me up to date with the exploding world of vlog distribution.
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BlogTalk Downunder abstract
Remember, abstracts for BlogTalk Downunder are due on Monday 31 Jan. This is mine, fingers crossed… Blogging Technologies and the Social Construction of Genre The web is rife with over-generalised and underexamined discursive constructions of particular blogging platforms, blogging genres, and their users: we are led to believe that LiveJournal users are all teenage girls…
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Media Convergence in the Blogosphere
SixApart (developers of Movable Type) have bought LiveJournal. What’s next, Google buys SixApart and Flickr? But as I’m just about finished knocking out an abstract for BlogTalk Downunder on blogging technologies and the co-construction of genre, what interests me is the possible impact that SixApart’s need to clearly differentiate their products might have on blogging…
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musicking
Not a bad name for a music blog: the architectural dance society. Via the rambler, which is a very very good music blog indeed.