A good friend of mine has some issues with language. She is, by her own admission, a lousy speller. While her vocabulary houses more than a few five-dollar words, they’re as likely as not to turn up as malapropisms when hauled out. Her sentence construction can be choppy, her grammatical structure inelegant and her punctuation, [...]
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A book about blogging? No, wait, a self-published book about blogging by a bunch of bloggers, many of whom are relatively unknown even in the blogosphere and none of whom are exactly rocking slots one through ten on the New York Times bestseller list? Hey, they all laughed at Christopher Columbus (and probably, at some [...]
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A home of one’s own, Part II.
Several years ago, while I was going though an unusual confluence of broke (career change), unemployed (cataclysmically idiotic SAG commercial strike) and dork (freshly discovered love of computers), I stumbled upon a little time-suckage device called “Epinions.” Much like the blogosphere, Epinions was a virtual community where like-minded souls could: (a) “meet”; (b) exchange ideas; [...]
My activist friend, Judy, who keeps me abreast of all important demonstrations, underfunded causes and Nefarious Evildoings of the Neo-Fascist Regime in Their Neverending Quest for Global Domination, is the one who pressed me to see The Corporation this summer. (Frankly, I would have preferred to see Riding Giants with my then-boyfriend and his surfing [...]
As a neophyte blogger, I’m still fascinated by every technical aspect of blogging. But I’m especially curious about where my up-to-200 hits per day are coming from. I mean, I have friends, but not that many. And while my new presence at blogging.la has driven some traffic over here, there are still plenty of people [...]
While I’m new at this whole blogging thing, I think it’s safe to say that “Why Blog?” is a perennial question amongst bloggers. And I include the variations on this, such as: “Why am I blogging about this?” Or better yet, “Why am I blogging about this?” Who am I to be writing things down [...]
