This week’s edition is up at Poons, ranging nicely across the political and subject spectrums.
For the record I’ll note that I’d call myself a Green feminist rather than an eco-feminist – but I’m not going to get too into hair-splitting…. still too many things to do this evening!
The Britblog roundup has gone on a long roadtrip – which hopefully won’t end the same way as Thelma and Louise’s. It will be stopping by here next month, but today getting the engine running smoothly it’s Mr Eugenides, who manages a rather nice Iceland link in there – perhaps a Britblog first?
Just because I think that I might not have enough to do (some time in about 2030 perhaps…), I’ve started a website.
Yes, another one, My Paris Your Paris. Visitors to My London Your London might recognise an element or two, although this will be more tourist, less theatre, orientated.
The aim – well to have a place for more stories, possibly to make a little cash, and definitely to have an excuse to visit Paris more often.
I’ve started with possibly my absolutely favourite place in Paris (although there’s plenty of competition – the Place Colette probably comes second, and the Left Bank near Notre Dame third).
A remarkably sensible and well-though-out piece about the end of privacy – the children growing up on MySpace, YouTube et al.
The one thing missing from this piece is an exploration of the historical and cross-cultural dimensions. Privacy is a very Western concept, and it might come to be a concept thought of as an oddity, one exhibited in a few states of a few centuries.
No, I’m not very comfortable with that concept, but then I’m a child of the 20th-century West (and an only child at that!)
One amazing set of figures, and an illuminating graph here.
So about 6 per cent of comments made on blogs are “real”; the rest spam. (Luckily Akismet, which provides these figures, is pretty good. On a bad day it catches on this site around 1,000 spam comments – I can hardly complain that during spam “storms”, which seem to come along every week or so, it misses the odd one.)
Speaking of things you find on the internet: I discovered today that you can watch the entire BBC2 show The Daily Politics (until noon the day after broadcast). I discovered that today because Sian Berry, the Green Party Female Principal Speaker, was on the show – which was going to be about climate change, until the latest Blair revelation. Still, she did a good job, I think, across some unexpected ground.
The funny thing is that a couple of days ago someone was mocking me for not owning a television. As I said, it is me who is ahead of the curve now, not them – since you don’t actually need one any more…
Just found out about a new carnival, of anthropology, called the Four Stone Heath, the latest on the delightfully named Aardvarcheology. I was particularly taken by the link about out-of-place artefacts post – and particularly its account of the “Baghdad battery”, from the 3rd century BC – ’tis amazing what the human imagination can come up with. (Actually a pot for storing papyrus…)
Hat-tip to Sharon on Early Modern Notes, who incidentally is looking for hosts for the history carnival – particularly female hosts to get some gender balance. Now I know there are women’s history bloggers who visit here who would be ideal (you DON’T have to be a professional historian! – I’m not and I’ve hosted it twice – although you can be of course…) You know who you are – please volunteer (or I might just send Sharon a list of suggestions!)
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