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Forced to blog

I don’t have time to think in depth about this right now, but Seb posted a link to an interesting discussion regarding the motivation to blog. Kara is putatively researching the motivation behind creating a link in a blog, also an interesting question. We have here a grammer of motives regarding the activity of blogging. […]
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Scaling MT

Brighter folks in the department warned against trying to start a blogging system for the students in our program–at least without the resources (read “funded FTEs”) to support it. Think of the problems with user management, just as an example, they said. But I’m nothing if not stubborn, so the task of migrating to a […]
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Toward the Lifelog

Thomas Burg picked up on my recent quote from Eco and links to another model for lifelogging of sorts, Buckminster Fuller’s Chronofile. Coincidentally, I have been wrestling with managing my citations and my calendar, when I read Phil Wolff’s very intriguing post on semantic weblogging, complete with a link to HP’s page for research on […]
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But wait. What if I’m a girl?*

Jill pointed to the Gender Genie, which employs a heuristic involving the use of particular words to infer whether you are male or female. I am female. (Er, I mean, my blog writing is). I even tried my most manly man posts, ones having to do with toys and aggression. No luck. Just couldn’t find […]
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