I’m going to be away from Brissie for about a week – visiting a friend who lives outside Toowoomba (and expecting to freeze!) – so won’t be around the intertubes though I’ll be scheduling the Saturday Salon post before I…
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Holidays and unfinished blog business!
Tagged with: blogosphere, Culture, gender & equality, sociology, Writings
Posted in culture, Developing world, feminism, life, Notices, Women
Posted in culture, Developing world, feminism, life, Notices, Women
John Howard, the 007 version
Pure comedy gold from Aussie Bob at Surfdom – Cabinet: The Movie. Nothing more to say. Go round and look.
Tagged with: blogosphere, Culture, Federal election 2007, John Howard, politics&govt, Writings
Posted in culture, Federal Elections, Howardia, levity
Posted in culture, Federal Elections, Howardia, levity
Happy birthday blogosphere!
I had no idea, perhaps because as suz observed in a recent post, we in Australia were mostly just discovering the intertubes for the first time a decade ago, but apparently the blogosphere turns ten today. Via Crooks and Liars,…
Tagged with: blogosphere, Culture, Federal election 2007, politics&govt, Writings
Posted in culture, elections, Federal Elections, media, sociology
Posted in culture, elections, Federal Elections, media, sociology
Riverbend bids Baghdad farewell
Riverbend, the author of Baghdad Burning, whose blog has become well known around the world, is finally packing up and leaving Iraq. Two million Iraqis have already done so.
Reprise: What's it like to have one leg?
I don’t blog on disability issues very much, but I noticed at tigtog’s place a link to a blog that’s new to me – The Gimp Parade, and also via that link, I became aware of one of the very…
Tagged with: blogosphere, Culture, Disability, disadvantage, sociology, Writings
Posted in culture, Disability, life, Philosophy, Technology
Posted in culture, Disability, life, Philosophy, Technology
Quantum geek blog stoushes hit the big time
A guest post by Mick Something really weird is happening in science right now, it seems that the blogosphere is changing the nature of scientific discourse. A great example of this, and one that I’m familiar with because it’s a…
Moral Panic Monday!
I couldn’t bring myself to watch more than five minutes of Difference of Opinion tonight (not for the first time). Let me just say that bullying existed before cyber bullying, pron existed before the intertubes, teenagers were writing angsty poetry…
Sunday Spruiking
What are the two best posts/articles you read online this week, LarvyProdders? A link and a short paragraph each describing what appealed to you, please. (If you post more than two links you’ll be automoderated, sorry.)
Decline to publish unacceptable content
Kos thinks women (well, specifically Kathy Sierra) whine unjustifiably about being harassed online, which is not a big deal, apparently. Bitch PhD explains to him that he is being an arse, as do quite a few Kossacks. Kos and Bitch…
Civility 2.0
In the wake of very distasteful things like the character assassination of Jill Filopivic and the horrendous cyberbullying of Kathy Sierra, there’s a welcome movement in the US blogosphere to adopt voluntary civility codes for blogs, as reported at Reason.…
Shake it up!
The blog formerly known as Shakespeare’s Sister has an interesting post from Mr Shakes on why men should get over the idea that feminism constitutes a threat to them, and embrace it as, well, just humanism.
Tagged with: blogosphere, Culture, gender & equality, Jill Filipovic, sociology, Writings
Posted in culture, feminism, politics, sociology
Posted in culture, feminism, politics, sociology
Stopping cyberbullying
Friday was, on short-notice, announced as Stop Cyberbullying Day by some US blogs. This was in response to high-profile software-usability author and blogger, Kathy Sierra, writing about how she has cancelled an upcoming conference speech and other engagements due to…
Tagged with: blogosphere, Culture, Jill Filipovic, Writings
Posted in Crime, culture, media, sociology
Posted in Crime, culture, media, sociology
Could blogs save us from Osama?
While the MSM has been reporting the imminent death of blogging, the utility of blogs is attracting attention elsewhere. The US intelligence community has long been divided by a common purpose. This lack of co-operation was identified as a major…
