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How long has it been since I opened up Wealth Bondage and immersed myself in the learned discourse there?  Too long.

And how long has it been since I’ve confronted the orange jump-suit with the guy in the Big Purple Hat?  I’ve been too long not there too, as I was reminded when I read this Mayosan interview with K!

And how would I have found that interview if I hadn’t been lingering over the number ten new voices pick at Brian Moffatt’s?  And when I read Mayosan’s comment about ten new voices in ten minutes and realized I still had three new voices to find I felt a moment’s insecurity, a bit of queasiness of the kind you might feel when you know somebody has nailed your inner greedball.  Or maybe you’ve never felt that moment of insecurity, being so well armed with self-esteem and all.

So here I am, muttering small talk at the wall.  Anybody seen the jewels and binoculars anywhere?

"…Habermas, defender of whatever can be rescued from the broken illusions of the Enlightenment."

Why does that sound like bullshit to me?

Ka-Ping Yee is a young man on the way to great things.  I ran into a reference to him while reading about SXSW.  his blog wasn’t hard to find from there.  Here’s his CV. The synchronicity for me on this one is that today I’ve been spending time with HP tc1100 and tr3000 tablet research.

I’ll be following Ping to see where he’s going.  This is probably one of the few livejournal blogs in my blogroll.

To see how his mind works, check out this installation…

Tara Calishain…  this makes three white women.  I’m starting to feel like any lack of diversity here has little to do with gender at this point and more to do with nationality and ethnicity. I first noticed Tara on the CBO Blogroll, and today found her at the Rex Hammock Ten New Voices list.  Rex just scrounged some names out of his own blogroll.  Bzzzt… game over Rex, no points.  I know where I can find two women who are not white.  Unfortunately they are both Americans.  While I scrounge up their links and add them to the blog roll, I’ll be thinking about where to find four non-white and hopefully nationally diverse males…  looking for people who aren’t already in my blogroll.  This is like a game, but a good game, with a serious intention.
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Regarding blogrolls, Shelley says they’re inherently wrong.  I don’t agree.  They’re like a community directory.  If my little community includes only people who can make a decent bearnaise and most of them are white women, then that tells you something about my community.  Nothing inherently wrong-o here.  I suppose if I didn’t include links in my posts, then I might be more inclined to take some gentle direction in that regard.
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La Shawn Barber…  a pleasure to read her work.  She seems to provide a balanced view of issues of current interest.  Unique.  I wonder if she writes in her PJs.
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Faye Anderson… I have a sense that Faye Anderson and I would have a lot to fight about, but her blog is what I imagine feature and editorial journalism should be:  engaged, topical, objective (but not to a fault), and expressing the truth as the author sees it.  I found Faye at the BloJoCred conference but haven’t before taken the time to look closely at her work.

I’ve attended three BloggerCons…  saw pretty much the same faces at the two in the east, with a leavening of new people at the one in the west.  My socializing at these events, and my professional and para-professional connections were gender neutral.  I valued these occasions for the face to face opportunity to meet men and women I knew online, and the opening opportunity to meet new people, although my disposition leads me back to the familiar rather than onto new ground.

Sometimes, professional courtesy was all that kept me in the room.  Sometimes I left the room.  The west coast version was in some ways better for me because there was another conference going on that also held my attention.  In this post and in a comment below Lisa Stone asks whether we think  BlogHerCon should be open to men.  This is a huge non-issue for me.

If it is open to men, would I choose to attend? 

I’m a big second wave feminism guy myself.  The third and fourth waves belong to generations addressing issues that I have already helped address, and like post-modernism, they are essentially lies and an attempt to gin up some authenticity around a fresh generation’s need to cope with all things new without building on the past.  The real third wave isn’t due for another fifteen years or so and that depresses me, because - as Beth and I were discussing last night - it will be that long before fashion turns back to nekkid.  I might not live long enough to enjoy looking at the next braless generation.

Right now I am missing SXSW.  Later this month I will miss Freedom 2 Connect.  These are the two regrets I have vis a vis gatherings right now.  Every year there are roughly two dozen professional and pop cultural gatherings that I would like to attend but can’t due to other commitments.  If the way opens for me to attend a BlogHerCon, you can bet that I’ll be there connecting with people who are online friends and connecting with new people to the best of my ability.  If the way doesn’t open, either due to conflicts in my schedule or an  exclusionary invitational policy, then I won’t be there.

But I do admire the impulse that these women have to topple an authoritarian structure and perhaps get a word in edgewise at a non-Winer dominated gathering of bloggers.

Jeneane Sessum started a conversation on diversity that was promptly taken up by many in our circle.  Or perhaps it just re-emerged and no attribution is needed.  Anyway, Halley Suitt suggested that we encounter our lack of diversity by finding "Ten New Voices."  My disclaimer on this is that I’ll play as long as people understand that these are new to me, even if they aren’t new to you!     I’ve gone this way and that on playing.  Lisa Williams did a quick list of ten people who fit the rules:

1.  They can’t be male if they are white;
2.  You must have five women and five men;
3.  You must have at least three non-Americans.

I quibbled with her:

"Yeah but, just because Joi is a non-white, not American, Japanese guy, how can we say he’s a new voice?"

"Just shut up Frank.  You’re so annoying."

I’m pleased to see that my interpretation has legs, based on this post today.  On the other hand it makes it that much harder to find a so called "new voice."  I’m pleased to say that there are two people I’ve added to my blogroll today who for me are new voices.

1. Keith Jenkins.  How have I missed Keith?  Well, I have, that’s all.  He’s a prominent journalist with deep roots in the web, and I’m glad to have learned of his work.  (Thanks to Dave Winer who linked to Steven Levy who said,

Rebecca MacKinnon, writing about the conference as it happened, got a
response on the "comments" space of her blog from someone concerned
that if the voices of bloggers overwhelm those of traditional media,
"we will throw out some of the best… journalism of the 21st century."
The comment was from Keith Jenkins, an African-American blogger who is
also an editor at The Washington Post Magazine [a sister publication of
NEWSWEEK]. "It has taken ‘mainstream media’ a very long time to get to
[the] point of inclusion," Jenkins wrote. "My fear is that the
overwhelmingly white and male American blogosphere… will return us to
a day where the dialogue about issues was a predominantly white-only
one."

Okay, now check this out.  This is by way of what the maoists in the commune used to call "self-criticism."  Rebecca was referencing Keith Jenkins on March 4.  Halley referenced him Monday.  I ran into him on a link search inspired by Levy’s citation, and now I’ll list him as a new voice, because I "found" him on the web.  I think Shelley could make something of this, but for now I’ll forgive myself with a shake of the head.

2.  My second "new voice" is Lisa Stone, Surfette.  This link is also due to the prodigiously linking Dave Winer.  Stone and a group of other women bloggers are talking up a BlogHERcon meeting. 

There, I’ve consciously added two new people to my blog roll who meet the "Ten New Voices" criteria. 
For others out there who are interested in diversifying the community, I commend to you a Madison blogger I ran into through the good offices of Jonathon Delacour sometime in the last year or two… Chan Stroman, The Bookish Gardener.  Ms. Stroman is not a new voice to me, and therefore not a token on my game board (… do I have to tell you that yes, I’m generally conscious of my use of language?)  Anyway, she writes beautifully about gardening and many things cultured, and I recommend that you check out her blog if you have an interest in living well and living good, regardless of the color of your thumbs.

Friday, May 21, 2024 — Scientifically proven to heal the sick, the "Jewish penicillin," a.k.a. chicken soup, is a food which has earned a place deep in Jewish tradition. But for New York resident Rosely Hemmelstein, the dish yielded an extra benefit: a trip to Israel as the winner of a chicken-soup contest held by The National Jewish Outreach Program (NJOP).  "The nicest thing you can do for a sick person is make them chicken soup. It shows how much you care. It’s a universal comfort which cures all," Himmelstein told The Jerusalem Post.
from:
Chicken soup is a real winner
by DANIEL FARBER

via: HighBeam Research

Chicken soup has long been regarded as a remedy for symptomatic upper respiratory tract infections. As it is likely that the clinical similarity of the diverse infectious processes that can result in "colds" is due to a shared inflammatory response, an effect of chicken soup in mitigating inflammation could account for its attested benefits. To evaluate this, a traditional chicken soup was tested for its ability to inhibit neutrophil migration using the standard Boyden blindwell chemotaxis chamber assay with zymosan-activated serum and fMet-Leu-Phe as chemoattractants. Chicken soup significantly inhibited neutrophil migration and did so in a concentrationdependent manner. The activity was present in a nonparticulate component of the chicken soup. All of the vegetables present in the soup and the chicken individually had inhibitory activity, although only the chicken lacked cytotoxic activity. Interestingly, the complete soup also lacked cytotoxic activity. Commercial soups varied greatly in their inhibitory activity. The present study, therefore, suggests that chicken soup may contain a number of substances with beneficial medicinal activity. A mild anti-inflammatory effect could be one mechanism by which the soup could result in the mitigation of symptomatic upper respiratory tract infections.

from:
Chicken Soup Inhibits Neutrophil Chemotaxis In Vitro(*).
by Rennard, Stephen I.

source: Chest, October 1, 2024.

via: HighBeam Research

COPYRIGHT 2024 American College of Chest Physicians

Get Well Soon RB…

Norm Jenson continues to keep me up to speed with Quicktime cuts of good TV…  This is a public service that Norm performs.  He’s better than TiVo.

Here’s the Daily Show bit on the "New Journalism."  Jay Rosen appears.

Here’s Ward Churchill on the Bill Maher show.

Here’s Ari Fleischer on the Daily Show.
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Madame Levy continues to astound with her poetry, personal revelation, and serendipitous linkage.  Read the Yak Shaving post and follow the links to enlightenment.
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Locke and Mandarin Meg have been playing a duet with absolute and relative positioning of shaded text…  my CSS guru and gurette.  (See previous post below and compare with Chris’ to learn why while imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, it lacks a certain je ne sais quoi in the creativity department.)
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Dr. Weinberger is off to confer with Bill Clinton in Madrid?
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Canada is where it’s happening.  I say this in spite of Ranger Tim’s recent move to Silicon Valley.  Brian Moffatt, Tucows, Jon Husband, Doug Alder, and so many more… sorry that I left you off the list.  It just goes on and on.  What is it about Canada that has fostered such a brilliant e-plosion of webitivity?

I wish I could read it…