Archive for the ‘Digital Culture’ Category

Link Farm

September 3, 2006 - 11:37 am No Comments

I am trying to get a widget to work in the sidebar - one that would link to what I am reading - but am having no success. Ah, techonology….I love ya until you fail me.

In the meantime, some fun links rattling around my del.icio.us account.

1. Post Secret updates every Sunday, and it does not archive content, so if you miss a week, you miss a week. I find that a refreshing change to most online projects, even though the OCD in me is peeved that I missed a few weeks and now can never know what I missed. MY GOD! It is like life before answering machines, VCRs and TIVO. Primitive!

2. Enclosures. I spend a lot of time in bookstores, and in used bookstores, and I love blogs that pinpoint one tiny slice of human experience and turn a bright light on it. Myself, I always feel like I have to leave these little slips of paper in the books that I buy, at the pages they have lived between for so long, which is why some of my cookbooks have recipe pages marked with the birth notices and obituaries of people I have never met.

3. One Sentence. True stories, told in one sentence.

4. Bar Camp. Not, as you might assume, where bartenders go to learn how to spin bottles over the back of their hand without breaking them in the ice, but instead a new kind of conference, one that breaks down the barriers between attendee and presenter.

Immediacy and Fame

July 1, 2006 - 7:33 pm No Comments

In my left hand desk drawer is a postcard, sent to me by Margaret Atwood. If ever there was a fire in my house, it is entirely possible that this would be one of the things I grab, along with my 200G backup drive and the dog.

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