Scraped from Alison Bechdel’s blog: the USPTO refuses to trademark Dykes on Bikes, claiming that “dyke” is a vulgar term.
Now, I am just not dykey. I’m not. I shave my legs. I am bad at softball. O.k., in the Air Force I was pretty good with a .38, but I throw a ball like a [...]
Tags: Gay Rights
This is the same file as in the previous post, this time published to OurMedia, to see if the FRL feed picks up the media enclosure even though it’s posted remotely.
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Just a test of podcasting, restored to FRL with the re-modification of the RSS 2 templates and the latest version of Brandon Fuller’s very useful MT enclosures plugin. Thanks, Brandon.
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My favorite session, offering two outstanding presentations on podcasting and vblogging, with advice, tidbits, and forecasts for every level of expertise. Much encouragement to do it on the cheap and focus on the content.
Lisa Williams, podcastress extraordinaire, walked us through basic terms, hardware, software, copyright and music tips, and her predictions for the future, [...]
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The session wasn’t really called that. It was actually called Women Blog Developers, and it was a very small but high-quality discussion about software development and women, led by Karen Luk from MSN Spaces. The discussion spent a fair amount of time on an issue that doesn’t get discussed enough: how to get development feedback [...]
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So I’m at lunch at the BlogHer conference, sitting at a table with four jeunne filles from LA while we all nibbled on green beans and chicken with dried tomatoes. I asked them if they had blogs.
“We’re identity bloggers,” said a blonde in a black t-shirt that in bright letters said “DESTROY.”
“An [...]
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Interesting points from Ambra Nykol, who says the conservative blogosphere is “terribly boring”
People get rewarded for participating in the “parrotsphere”
Look at your goals: why are you doing this? To make money? Share an opinion? Participate in the conversation?
Blogs can personalize the blogosphere and make politics more accessible
From the audience, Chaira Fox, library student, [...]
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On the one hand, I was in a now-familiar element for FRL: listening to members of the mediarati discuss the problems with mainstream media. I love hearing j-school professors, journalists, and scruffy new media types chew over how to do a better job providing information to the masses. How, as a librarian and writer, could [...]
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