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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! :)