Ronni has a great post inviting her readers to dig into her blogroll and find a new (to you) blog and review it. I did it… prairiemary was the blog I found. Mary (prairie mary) Scriver has links to sbpoet (Sharon Brogan) and (in her sidebar) to 2blowhards. It was a pleasure to reconnect with these sites as well. Sharon posts a copy of her “real writer certificate,” which reminded me of Barthelme’s The Dolt, bringing me full circle into the self-referential framework that is too often my blogging. (Of course the only similarity between Sharon and The Dolt is that they both refer to writing certificates, a funny concept on the face of it).
Other stuff that’s bubbled up in my browser tabs…
Liz Ditz posting on the scientific assessment of mercury in childhood vaccinations as a cause for autism (Not! so don’t believe ABC when they show their contrived story about the “conflict” of opinions here)…
A List Apart caving in to Microsoft’s rejection of browser standards? (Thanks to Shelley for that link)…
Snorri Sturluson, who needs no introduction…
Settling Old Scores by Beethoven (thanks to AKMA for the link to Michael White’s recent column. By waiting a few days my urgency to write ham-handedly about Foucault and Stephen Hero yakity yak has left me and I’m left with a pleasant read by a good journalist and a good and decent blogger)…
The Blush of the New by Lee Siegel
Edelman’s white paper on distributed influence in social media is still lurking out there like a big white whale in bermuda shorts with an aloha shirt, a straw hat, shades, and a rum punch with an umbrella in it. I hope to put a toothpick in it and serve it on a Ritz cracker soon enough. Thanks, Technobabble. And thanks too to the RJR Nabisco Corporation for product placement on the Ritz cracker, the foundation for the finest ordure.
Pride of Oakland Drum and Bugle Corps.
Rafe Needleman’s Newbie’s Guide to Twitter.
Cynthia Laitman and the Wisconsin Cable Bill.
Open Rights Group wiki… net neutrality… many of Suw Charman’s contributions… meet Suw at F2C in Silver Springs the last day of March and the first of April…
Tim Russert, Russell Crowe, and I don’t know what all…
Dan Bricklin’s blog, January 2024
Fast Ladder “You can import your opml list to Fast ladder.”
The Winning Ticket… Hillary and Diebold (pretty sure this link came from The River a while ago)
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Ronni Bennett 01.25.08 at 4:24
Glad you like the blog review series and thanks for an excellent piece on prairiemary’s blog.
Thanks for your list too. And don’t you think “Settling Old Scores by Beethoven” is one of the best headlines ever…
Jon H. 01.25.08 at 3:22
I have an instant revulsion for anything written by Lee Siegel, even without reading it. And that’s not fair of me, I know.
Frank Paynter 01.25.08 at 4:22
Jon, I’m looking forward to reading “Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob.” I think it will be provocative and at times maddening, but it takes an author with strong opinions to help us find our own place, don’t you think? I also want to read the book Siegel is reviewing at the above link (Peter Gay’s “Modernism, the Lure of Heresy,” a more accessible and less contentious review of which may be found here.)
Jon H. 01.25.08 at 5:52
Yes, I think you are correct. I did say I wasn’t being fair, if that’s any kind of defense (it’s not).