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Leah Peah, et. al. rocks Showtime

My friend Leah is a consultant for The United States of Tara. Hear what she has to say:

Buddah Board :: Day 2

So not only am I uncomfortable with the impermanence, now I find I must analyze,  interpret, find some meaning in the lines and dots and dashes and swoops.
Both manifestations have what could be considered an eye. Is this the opening up of the eye?  a reminder to see?  to look at myself.  Perhaps this is [...]

Storytelling Blogs

Hi All!
I’m looking for blogs to read that are more of the telling stories variety and less of the the commenting on the news variety… especially if they are regional in nature (any region, but stories of the Southwest would be preferable)
Actually I’ll be writing a paper tentatively titled “The Emergence of Blogs as the [...]

I did a bad bad thing

Starting in January 2006 I started blogging for SanDiegoBlog.com. It was a community blog run by my dear friend Joe Crawford (one of the smartest guys I know). I blogged off and on for almost 2 years. The ads he had running on the site pretty much paid for hosting– his hope was [...]

Count Down

Great post over at Critical Mas, tallying up all his blog posts over the last few years.  So of course I had to go and count up mine:

On this blog:  246

SanDiegoBlog, the now junked up “community blog” with ads and no good content and no moderation of spam: 104 (MAS isn’t counting his posts over [...]

I generally don’t do this

Memes. I hate them. They are like the blogosphere’s version of a chain letter, the creeping crud so to speak. Now the concept of memes, from an academic standpoint is quite interesting.
A meme is a cultural unit of information that gets transmitted from one person to another. Memes, like viruses propogate themselves. In [...]

Dear Anonymous,

Just a little heads up. I will no longer be accepting comments from you. It’s not that I don’t appreciate civil discourse. But civil is in fact the operative word here.
You make a lot of patronizing references to “people like you” and “the likes of you” as if you know me. You know [...]

Citizen Voices Blog Launches Without Me!

KPBS has just launched the Citizen Voices Blog today.
Without me.
They had the opportunity to talk about the project, partisanship and politics and the upcoming election on the KPBS These Days program, hosted by Tom Fudge.
I must say, it looks like an interesting lineup of political bloggers. And of course in hindsight, it’s probably [...]

KPBS Citizen Voices Project. Round 2

Yeah me! I made it through to Round 2, and the producer has asked for more writing samples.
Let me preface the next commentary with saying that 1. I love KPBS and 2. I welcome the opportunity to apply for the Citizen Voices project and 3. I have no idea how I would choose blogger/writers…
HOWEVER.
The [...]

Did I forget to mention…

I just applied for a blogging gig. For KPBS radio/tv.
KPBS is recruiting bloggers for an election-based project called Citizen Voices. Six people will be selected to blog as “citizen journalists” for KPBS.org from January 2008 through November 2008. Selected applicants will be trained (beginning Nov. 2007) in journalistic ethics to maintain fair and accurate writing. [...]