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One year and 235 posts later…
Today is the one-year anniversary of the establishment of this blog. I count my decision to start this blog, and after that decision the decisions to cultivate it, populate it, and spread the word...
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Blog for International Women’s Day
Monday, March 8, 2010, is International Women’s Day, and Gender Across Borders is helping to get the word out by asking people to blog on this year’s theme: “Equal rights, equal opportunity: Progress...
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thoughts on creative writing, MFA programs, and the social beat
I recently participated in a local event called Ignite Bloomington, where my co-presenter, Christian Briggs, and I performed a poem we called “the social beat.” The design of the background images, the...
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This I Believe: informed citizenship and informed citizenry
Here’s an inalienable right for you: the right to informed citizenship. Citizenship, the informed kind, has two distinct angles to it. The first is the personal: We, all of us, have an absolutely...
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omg I just talked to Howard Rheingold
You can keep your Robert Pattinsons and Miley Cyruses and whichever other beautiful prepubescent sexy people you young people idolize these days. My idols are people like these folks: That guy in the...
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why I’m over here now
I’m not going to spend a lot of time on a self-indulgent post about why I left Blogger and came to WordPress, why I decided to pay for web hosting, and what I’ve learned about blogging, web design, web...
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top 11 sleeping alone and starting out early posts
My previous blog, sleeping alone and starting out early, is dead. I did port the content over to making edible playdough is hegemonic, and in so doing I had a chance to file through the more than 200...
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desperately seeking female academics to stalk
Recently, while revisiting and updating my blogroll for the move to this url, I decided to add a category I called “academics I sort of stalk.” I imagined this as the place where I would make public,...
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on openness in academia: why I’ll be posting my coursework online
cross-posted at the HASTAC blog. Academics don’t really like to share. There are lots of reasons for this, and many of the reasons are built right into the foundations of the ivory tower. We can’t...
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“be cool, you guys” revisited: on identity theft and ignorant behavior
Last updated: Tuesday, Sept. 7, 10:05 a.m.: The author of the blog described below has acknowledged that the comments posted using my sister’s online identity were not, in fact, posted by the “real”...
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