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[drwex]

I am on the verge of punting Diesel. Comments favoring the punt or not-punt options will be taken into consideration.

I am once again skipping huge chunks of LJ. I enjoy when my friends point me at things that are worthwhile to read.

Order your Serenity shirts awreddy. I still need to find someone who has vending space at Arisia and have no leads at present.

I will have something more significant to say Real Soon Now, I promise.

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[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I am once again skipping huge chunks of LJ. I enjoy when my friends point me at things that are worthwhile to read.

I pointed out a blog-sociology article here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/shadesong/2687177.html), but otherwise my posts have been mainly about my writing and my body.

I still need to find someone who has vending space at Arisia and have no leads at present.

I shall ask on your behalf!

[drwex]

I read the blog-sociology thing. Interesting. I get some of that in Copyfight. One of my co-authors once referred to the author of a related blog as being "too interested in the deluge of linky love." It's an itneresting medium, for sure.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Copyfight?

"too interested in the deluge of linky love."

Ha!

My personal perspective on it is that I've been attacked rather too often for not being "balanced" - I kid you not, and I'm 90% sure that the phrase "fair and balanced" was also used - in my posts. I remind these people that this is not CNN, this is my diary. But. I supposedly have a "responsibility to be balanced because [I am] widely read".

And if I don't put up with outright abuse in comment threads, I'm "surrounding [myself] with sycophants".

Hmph, I say.

[drwex]

Copyfight: The Politics of IP

It's where I do my intellectual blogging.

The question of whether LJ is a blog (mostly it's not) or a diary (it kinda almost is) or something else has been a fascination of mine for a while. Having thrown myself into the train-wreck it's more than an intellectual concern these days.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*adds copyfight feed*

For me, it really is more of a diary. I started it in response to a Florida friend's complaint that he didn't know what was going on in my daily life since I'd moved to Georgia. So I do have some bloglike components to it, but the intent was always to have something more like a diary/communication tool. I find the idea of being looked on as a reporter who must do political research and present all sides of a story rather than just posting a mini-rant silly. This is the editorial page, man, and I've never claimed otherwise. :)

The responsibility of a blogger/LJer to their "audience" has become of interest to me. I find this disclaimer (http://www.namaii.com/readme/) well-done, though visually annoying.

[drwex]

Right, I'd forgotten Copyfight has a feed here. You do miss the (often interesting) commentary on the entries, though. And yes, I've noticed you do use your LJ as a form of diary. I sometimes do that, sometimes use it as a blog. But mostly it remains something else.

Interesting disclaimer. Thanks for the pointer.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

You do miss the (often interesting) commentary on the entries, though.

Well, I can always pop on over if it's a topic of interest. Adding it as a feed will remind me that it exists; I'm not so good at remembering to check non-LJ blogs! :)

[mizarchivist]

Don't know if Merv found you last week re: shirts/Arisia. He suggested you talk to Arisia VP, who is coordinating vendors to some degree. That's all I know- this veep is not someone I know.

[drwex]

Merv has twice passed me in recent weeks with his usual wave and "hi wex" being the sum total of interaction. *shrug*

"punting Diesel"

[edichka2.livejournal.com]

Is that a reference to _Thomas the Tank Engine_? Or am I out of touch?

- Eddie

Re: "punting Diesel"

[drwex]

It's a local social gathering, which I wouldn't expect non-locals to know about. Come to think of it, should you ever make it out this way I'd take you there. You'd love the coterie of dykes that run the place and it's right next door to a lovely nearly antiquarian used-book shop.

Anyway, "punting Diesel" is local slang for skipping out on the weekly Poly Boston social gather that takes place at the Diesel Cafe on Tuesday evenings. It started as a "get out of the house" for the unemployed during the dot-bomb and has evolved into a regular social games-and-chat-and-meet-for-dinner thing. It's my weekly socialization, sort of.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

I punted on Diesel a while ago... too crowded, poly too young and drama-prone for me, too many "creepy" (IMHO) guys looking for HBB's, etc. I'm still poly, but one partner is as much as I can deal with, these days.

As for LJ... I read some blogs, too, but not regularly (Kevin Drum at Washington Monthly is a favorite, but that's largely because he's the brother of an ex, and I'm good friends with his mom.) LJ is the main way I get more personal info about people I know. (and good links, too)

[drwex]

My response to the poly crowd differs from yours so I have less demotivation, normally.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

Merv is also probably not the right person to talk to about vending space. You might ask my beloved husband for a better person... he no longer runs Dealers, but he's in charge of the people who do.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I still go to Diesel sometimes, but I'm not as enthusiastic about it as I used to be. Seeing friends is still good, as is relaxing with tea after a day at work, but...enh. Not interested in picking up/being picked up, and it is filling up with people I don't know so well. Not that there's anything inherently wrong with new people showing up, it's more a function of where my head is.

Oh, Wex, I think I ordered a 2XL fitted shirt, but I tried on your lovely wife's XL fitted shirt at Chip and Anne's a week or two ago and decided that the XL would be fine. Should I re-email you my order, or is this enough?

[drwex]

Since this data stream is separate from the shirt orders stream, it's best to mail shirt info, please.

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

I may or may not be at Diesel tonight. Hoping to make it there before my writing group. hell hopinh to make it there FOR my writing group. we'll see.

[hlmt.livejournal.com]

What is that weird LJ icon? Is that from Monty Python? I spit in your general direction or something? *lol*

[drwex]

*cries at your uncultured nature* yes, it's Monty Python
Go rent Monty Python and the Holy Grail