Tag...I'm "it". Elle tagged me with this muse to go out thou and be witty, creative and do it all in only 6 words. Well, now if that doesn't get the writing juices going, gee what will?! hmmm...
Ok, what I have so far...
Dark. Noises. Alone. Mom's home. Safe.
Tied. No time. Throw. Caught? Joy!
Glances. Whispers. Sighs. Kiss. Partners. Endure.
Questions abound. Found book. Answered safely.
No more hate. Peace is love.
Research stalled. Motivation scarce. Need chocolate!
[ or its alternate.... Need sleep! ]
Hmmm... I've even mused on this one overnight and I still don't have anything terribly witty or as good as the ones in Elle's comments.
Hmm... one more maybe....
Competitive. Crazy. Sleepless. Blocked. Typical student?
Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Blog Bling
Hmmm... tongue twisters for the 21st century. Say "big blog bling" ten times fast...
Anyway... cool article from NY Times Tech section on 'blog bling', more commonly known as 'widgets' (and not to be confused with the kind of widgets that are desktop apps), and their growing popularity.
Nice quote here on the different types or categories of 'widgets' (you know me, all about the categorization!):
So I guess I'm going to go to that Widgetbox site and check out a little adornment for my humble, and plain, virtual self here. I have always wondered about that map with the red push-pin like dots I've seen on many a blog, and now thanks to this piece I know where it comes from[ Clustr Maps ]-- so maybe something 'useful' like that. Definitely not some of the more asinine ones like "ugly person of the day'" (what the hell are they thinking??! and no, on 2nd thought I am NOT going to outlink to that one!). Or maybe this thing called Sphere It (but it's more a bookmarklet, and the widget isn't available directly for Blogger. Hmmm). Nothing silly or wildly extraneous. Refined, classy. Like the quote from the last page of the Times article, somewhere "between Mr T. and Audrey Hepburn."
Anyway... cool article from NY Times Tech section on 'blog bling', more commonly known as 'widgets' (and not to be confused with the kind of widgets that are desktop apps), and their growing popularity.
Nice quote here on the different types or categories of 'widgets' (you know me, all about the categorization!):
Ed Anuff, a co-founder of Widgetbox.com, divides widgets into three categories. “One is self-expression widgets, like photo galleries, games or YouTube videos that you like,” he said. The second category includes widgets that generate revenue for a blogger, like a box that displays auctions from a particular eBay category, or a blogger’s favorite DVDs from Amazon.com. The third category, Mr. Anuff said, encompasses “site-enhancement widgets, like discussion forums, news feeds or a
guest book, which provide better utility for your Web site.”
So I guess I'm going to go to that Widgetbox site and check out a little adornment for my humble, and plain, virtual self here. I have always wondered about that map with the red push-pin like dots I've seen on many a blog, and now thanks to this piece I know where it comes from[ Clustr Maps ]-- so maybe something 'useful' like that. Definitely not some of the more asinine ones like "ugly person of the day'" (what the hell are they thinking??! and no, on 2nd thought I am NOT going to outlink to that one!). Or maybe this thing called Sphere It (but it's more a bookmarklet, and the widget isn't available directly for Blogger. Hmmm). Nothing silly or wildly extraneous. Refined, classy. Like the quote from the last page of the Times article, somewhere "between Mr T. and Audrey Hepburn."
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Recommended Reading
Yah...like academic, grad student bloggers don't already have enough in their lives to read! Sheesh. Sometimes I think the web and all its Web2.0-ness glory is just one big conspiracy to keep productivity down and keep all those little students out there from ever graduating!!
That said...I'm gonna be distracted, and distracting, anyway. Ha. So there.
H/T to Elle for the links to the new Carnival of Gradual Progress. Now there's one I can get behind.
Hmm...speaking of 'behind' that seems to be the perfect descriptor for the state of my work.
Another potentially relevant one is Carnival of Education, now in its 102nd...ummm...what do ya call it? "format", "iteration", "round" ??? For a doc student in info thingies I'm not as up on this as I perhaps should be. H/T to Education Wonks for the link.
And a great post commenting on Friedman's bestselling "World Is Flat" book (which Golden Child gave to everyone this year with admonishment to read it 'now'. Right...I'll just slip that into my bedtime reading pile, or perhaps a little light travel reading?!!) and about some recent data that may dispute a few major points of Friedman. Hmm. Things to think about.
Oooooh! 'digital media alert!' 'beware of history'
Great new digital collection project called "African American Women in Iowa" from U. of Iowa. Have to come back and explore further. Found it at Research Buzz.
And can someone please tell me how (and why) taking our shoes off, or standing on ridiculuous and malfunctioning scanners, in the name of "improved security" helps us at airports, when it's apparently this easy for a kid to sneak onto not one, but TWO, flights--without a ticket or a guardian??? Hellooooo??!! I think the TSA has it all wrong. Boneheads...
ok, that's more than enough distractions. Oops, look at the time! Darn, another evening of 'hoping to get some work done' wasted....
That said...I'm gonna be distracted, and distracting, anyway. Ha. So there.
H/T to Elle for the links to the new Carnival of Gradual Progress. Now there's one I can get behind.
Hmm...speaking of 'behind' that seems to be the perfect descriptor for the state of my work.
Another potentially relevant one is Carnival of Education, now in its 102nd...ummm...what do ya call it? "format", "iteration", "round" ??? For a doc student in info thingies I'm not as up on this as I perhaps should be. H/T to Education Wonks for the link.
And a great post commenting on Friedman's bestselling "World Is Flat" book (which Golden Child gave to everyone this year with admonishment to read it 'now'. Right...I'll just slip that into my bedtime reading pile, or perhaps a little light travel reading?!!) and about some recent data that may dispute a few major points of Friedman. Hmm. Things to think about.
Oooooh! 'digital media alert!' 'beware of history'
Great new digital collection project called "African American Women in Iowa" from U. of Iowa. Have to come back and explore further. Found it at Research Buzz.
And can someone please tell me how (and why) taking our shoes off, or standing on ridiculuous and malfunctioning scanners, in the name of "improved security" helps us at airports, when it's apparently this easy for a kid to sneak onto not one, but TWO, flights--without a ticket or a guardian??? Hellooooo??!! I think the TSA has it all wrong. Boneheads...
ok, that's more than enough distractions. Oops, look at the time! Darn, another evening of 'hoping to get some work done' wasted....
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Not nearly famous
Well holy s--t!! There are actually people out there reading the drek that spews from my mouth and my addled brain...on occasion at least.
See, after seeing one on some other nifty (dear gawd did I really just say that??) blog, I went and added a stat meter sometime near the end of the year, mostly just for kicks. And I admit that I have paid scant little attention to it. C'mon, I'm not that egotistical...and I really didn't think I was blogging for much more than an audience of 1 to 3. ;-)
Anyway, I looked at the other data it collects today for the first time and I noticed all these hits and weird link-ins and 'page froms' and wondered what on earth USA Today had to do with how or why people linked to my blog.
And then I discovered a link to something I'd posted about a short while ago, the "Unitarian Jihad Name Generator", and saw there was this 'shout-out' to my blog from the Techspace blog at USA Today. Well damn.... who knew!!??!
I am minutely scarcely famous. and apparently not alone out here afterall.
Damn...I mean "darn"...I may have to watch my language more often.
Shoot....
See, after seeing one on some other nifty (dear gawd did I really just say that??) blog, I went and added a stat meter sometime near the end of the year, mostly just for kicks. And I admit that I have paid scant little attention to it. C'mon, I'm not that egotistical...and I really didn't think I was blogging for much more than an audience of 1 to 3. ;-)
Anyway, I looked at the other data it collects today for the first time and I noticed all these hits and weird link-ins and 'page froms' and wondered what on earth USA Today had to do with how or why people linked to my blog.
And then I discovered a link to something I'd posted about a short while ago, the "Unitarian Jihad Name Generator", and saw there was this 'shout-out' to my blog from the Techspace blog at USA Today. Well damn.... who knew!!??!
I am minutely scarcely famous. and apparently not alone out here afterall.
Damn...I mean "darn"...I may have to watch my language more often.
Shoot....
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
In absentia...me
So, not only is my "cranium" in absentia lately... I've actually been "in absentia."
Yeah, I know it's only the beginning of the damn term and I've already skipped town...oh that bodes well!! I've got whatever you call 'senior-itis' but for grad studentes who are tired of sitting in classrooms and want to be on doing something else...like, oh maybe, THEIR F---N DISSERTATION work???!!!!
--big sigh, bigger eye roll, seriously melodramatic stance--
Like I believe Elle said a few weeks ago, I've just to get over my damn self now don't I?! Seriously, all I seem to do in this little piece of the blogosphere is whine. Ok, I occasionally post links to items of interest that I've read and have no hope of remembering[ooohh....like this one...how did I miss "national religious freedom day" and how do I celebrate it??!] if I don't link them somewhere, and even then my memory is suspect...but really, all the 'personal' posts seem to have this whingy, pity-me, acid dripping cynical tone. Gawd...is that all that these years of grad school have reduced me to...and me with years of hard-core Diss. work yet to go???!! Oh man...
Hell, I think the first post of this year was even something along the lines of a resolution to QUIT doing that...and I seem to have a really lousy start on that 'resolution'.
Ok...now how on earth did I get from writing about not writing (huh?!) to my whiney ass-self? I swear sometimes I need to get checked for that adult ADD or something.[oooo...pretty shiny blog things...oooo... gotta remember to read this one more, not like I need more books, but still..] Add on top of that the fact that I seem to rival a goldfish for short term memory and it's just a bundle of fun getting older folks! sigh...
Hmmm.. here's another interesting blog post about digital media and research on digi media...didn't I post about this a short while ago, or did I just imagine that I read something, linked to it, and wrote a post about it???
Alright, I think I was going to write about how I've been on the road...again...and that's why no postings for days. Not that I didn't have my laptop...I do. Not that I don't have internet...I do...wireless even. Not that I haven't been checking email and working on the computer...I have. I just have let time get away from me while I'm away on personal business. The computer time i have carved out has been mostly spent on the important, and necessary, bits of school related work that just HAD to be done on a certain time frame, and other than that, little else Net related.
And I haven't even done more of the school related stuff I should be. I had this meeting on Friday before leaving town where I kinda sorta publicly stated I was going to try to submit a proposal, based on my Diss. topic, to a doctoral student consortium at a major conference in Far Away City, this summer.
ummmmm....deadline is this coming Monday. WHAT THE F--K was I thinking??????!!!! Oh holy hell....
something tells me the plane ride home to a wintry, cold, wet, miserable home in the Burbs ain't gonna be nearly as productive as I imagined it might be. oh crud....
Yeah, I know it's only the beginning of the damn term and I've already skipped town...oh that bodes well!! I've got whatever you call 'senior-itis' but for grad studentes who are tired of sitting in classrooms and want to be on doing something else...like, oh maybe, THEIR F---N DISSERTATION work???!!!!
--big sigh, bigger eye roll, seriously melodramatic stance--
Like I believe Elle said a few weeks ago, I've just to get over my damn self now don't I?! Seriously, all I seem to do in this little piece of the blogosphere is whine. Ok, I occasionally post links to items of interest that I've read and have no hope of remembering[ooohh....like this one...how did I miss "national religious freedom day" and how do I celebrate it??!] if I don't link them somewhere, and even then my memory is suspect...but really, all the 'personal' posts seem to have this whingy, pity-me, acid dripping cynical tone. Gawd...is that all that these years of grad school have reduced me to...and me with years of hard-core Diss. work yet to go???!! Oh man...
Hell, I think the first post of this year was even something along the lines of a resolution to QUIT doing that...and I seem to have a really lousy start on that 'resolution'.
Ok...now how on earth did I get from writing about not writing (huh?!) to my whiney ass-self? I swear sometimes I need to get checked for that adult ADD or something.[oooo...pretty shiny blog things...oooo... gotta remember to read this one more, not like I need more books, but still..] Add on top of that the fact that I seem to rival a goldfish for short term memory and it's just a bundle of fun getting older folks! sigh...
Hmmm.. here's another interesting blog post about digital media and research on digi media...didn't I post about this a short while ago, or did I just imagine that I read something, linked to it, and wrote a post about it???
Alright, I think I was going to write about how I've been on the road...again...and that's why no postings for days. Not that I didn't have my laptop...I do. Not that I don't have internet...I do...wireless even. Not that I haven't been checking email and working on the computer...I have. I just have let time get away from me while I'm away on personal business. The computer time i have carved out has been mostly spent on the important, and necessary, bits of school related work that just HAD to be done on a certain time frame, and other than that, little else Net related.
And I haven't even done more of the school related stuff I should be. I had this meeting on Friday before leaving town where I kinda sorta publicly stated I was going to try to submit a proposal, based on my Diss. topic, to a doctoral student consortium at a major conference in Far Away City, this summer.
ummmmm....deadline is this coming Monday. WHAT THE F--K was I thinking??????!!!! Oh holy hell....
something tells me the plane ride home to a wintry, cold, wet, miserable home in the Burbs ain't gonna be nearly as productive as I imagined it might be. oh crud....
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Excuse the mess
I finally decided to switch over to the 'new' blogger after getting gawd knows how many prompts and little messages or whatever. I kept waiting for them to finish it and get the glitches out. Particularly the one where the BlogThis bookmarklet was fixed. I use that quite a bit when I'm out doing work, reading, surfing, etc and find something I want to blog, and it was a pain in the butt to not have that feature available. So I didn't switch. Until today, when I read that they fixed the BlogThis feature a few days ago.
I hope it really does work with the 'new' version!
Also there may be some mess as I fix things in the template, fix the blogroll, fix any of the other little add-ons that once were here and figure out if I need to go back to every post individually to add labels, or if I'm just going to start labeling from here on out.
Gee...couldn't I have done this at the START of break and not 36 hours before the END of break?? Sheesh...
Obviously "time management" should've been on that resolution list...
...again...
I hope it really does work with the 'new' version!
Also there may be some mess as I fix things in the template, fix the blogroll, fix any of the other little add-ons that once were here and figure out if I need to go back to every post individually to add labels, or if I'm just going to start labeling from here on out.
Gee...couldn't I have done this at the START of break and not 36 hours before the END of break?? Sheesh...
Obviously "time management" should've been on that resolution list...
...again...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
A Technical Guide to Anonymous Blogging
A Technical Guide to Anonymous Blogging: "In April of 2005, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) posted its How to Blog Safely About Work and Anything Else. While the guide is rich in tips to ensure you don't reveal too much personal information while blogging, it doesn't look very closely at the technical issues associated with keeping a blog private. I decided to write a quick technical guide to anonymous blogging, trying to approach the problem from the perspective of a government whistle-blower in a country with a less-than-transparent government."
I think in my previous blogging life I linked to that EFF post. Good guide, good tips-- worth reading further when I have more time.
I think in my previous blogging life I linked to that EFF post. Good guide, good tips-- worth reading further when I have more time.
Monday, October 30, 2006
The Carnival of GRADual Progress
The Carnival of GRADual Progress
"Carnivals"... one of those Web2.0 things in the blogosphere I 'thought' I knew about, or knew what they all meant...but maybe not afterall.
At least here's one that might have some direct relevancy to my current state, and status. Now if I can just figure out the semantics, culture...and oh, for pete's sake, stop using academic words...if I can wrap my head around WTF these are, maybe someday I'll contribute.
Or just keep lurking...
"Carnivals"... one of those Web2.0 things in the blogosphere I 'thought' I knew about, or knew what they all meant...but maybe not afterall.
At least here's one that might have some direct relevancy to my current state, and status. Now if I can just figure out the semantics, culture...and oh, for pete's sake, stop using academic words...if I can wrap my head around WTF these are, maybe someday I'll contribute.
Or just keep lurking...
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