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Blogging/IT History Politics

A range of reading

November 8, 2007 – 12:09 am

For my “history” readers, the History Carnival No 58 is now up on the beautifully named Aardvarchaeology. (Guaranteed to top all alphabetical listings.) And I have to give it a good plug here, since Dr Martin has been generous in his links.

My more “political” readers might like to check out the new Liberal Conspiracy blog, which is explicitly trying to take on the right-wing bias of the blogosphere, as explained here. And yes, I am part of the conspiracy, just because I have lots of spare time… but no, I do think it is a good idea, and I will be joining in.

But don’t feel you have to put yourself in a pigeonhole – you can visit both if you like…

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The weekly countdown

November 5, 2007 – 12:57 am

Britblog Roundup No 142 is no up on Suz Blog, and the author brings her own inimitable style to the task – definitely one to enjoy.

(And through it I found a spectacularly wonderful new – to me – blog, English Buildings and learned what a traditional English bee skep (predating the days of hives), looks like.)

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A landmark of sorts…

October 26, 2007 – 7:40 am

“Akismet has caught 1,008,205 spam for you since you first installed it.”

That’s in slightly under two years. Hope you spammers have all had fun.

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Blogging/IT Environmental politics Feminism

A cure for an itchy voting finger

October 16, 2007 – 10:46 pm

Thanks to Jim, who’s named this blog as No 13 in the Top Twenty Green Blogs. There’s also a people’s choice award, so should your voting finger be feeling a little itchy through lack of a chance to exercise it at Westminster, here’s your chance. There are some great blogs there – the observant might have noticed that my blog roll has been augmented…

Philobiblon also makes an appearance in the Britblog roundup No 139. Chameleon did, as ever, a truly stupendous piece of work, and offered, within her feminism section (not a regular feature of the roundup, I’m afraid to say), a piercing commentary on my abortion post, working from Susan Bordo’s Are Mothers persons?, with a great quote: “In practice, our legal tradition divides the human world as Descartes divided all of reality: into conscious subjects and mere bodies (res extensa). And in the social expression of that duality, some groups have clearly been accorded subject-status and its protections, while others have regularly been denied those protections, becoming for all medical and legal purposes pure res extensa, bodies stripped of their animating, dignifying and humanising ‘subject-ivity”.

As I said, not your average roundup….!

(You can also listen to the audio version, on Pods and Blogs from Radio Five Live.)

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There is a lot to the blogosphere

October 10, 2007 – 12:01 am

This is what you might call a second bite of the apple: due to a logistical foulup I ended up doing the BBC FiveLive Britblog roundup interview for a second week in a row, and having listened, and read the full show I’ve now made a resolution not to miss it again: there is a roundup of Sudanese bloggers, previously unpublished World War I letters, and a lot more excellent stuff.

(And having listened to myself again, I’ve sworn to give up saying “indeed” at every opportunity… but I was very tired, which explains how stumbly I sound.)

P.S. Wandering around the links, I found this lovely site of bicycle pictures from around the world.

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Britblog – the audio version

October 2, 2007 – 8:42 pm

Delivered in my not so dulcet tones – you can find it as part of the complete one-hour Five Live programme on the BBC Pods and Blogs website, or on Matt Wardman’s handy short form collection.

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