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LA Times Op-Ed writer Michael Skube writes anti-blog opinion piece. Of course, bloggers react. Then Jay Rosen totallly p0wns him.

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See also: Big Ink | Journalism | Media Criticism |

Over the weekend I read Bit Literacy, another how-to-get-things-done book. More on it later as I start to figure out what to implement, what works, etc. The author's central tenet, though, is "Let the bits go." A good chunk of the book is therefore given over to your media diet. What are you going to read / watch / listen to? What's OK to let go?

Internet-wise, outside of email and writing / maintaining this blog, the mainstay of my media diet is RSS feeds. (One of the things I thought Hurst could have said more about was the use of a good feed reader as a way to stay on your media diet, since it discourages surfing, but he thinks that RSS is for "techies" only.) Over a year ago I put a stake in the ground and said that my limit was 99 feeds. Today, I've moved the goal posts (in a good way) and cut back to 43 feeds. (Link goes to my list of feeds on bloglines, so if you need to check if you're still in there go ahead.) Why 43? In honor of 43 Folders, the lifehack site, which is named for the 43 folders in a Getting Things Done "tickler file" I talked about here.

Cutting down to 43 wasn't easy. I got rid of nearly all my music blogs. I currently have more music than I have time to actually listen to. And yet I found myself constantly downloading more singles, tagging them, rating them to see if I wanted to keep them, filing them, etc. The signal-to-work ratio was getting pretty low, and from a time management standpoint I've eliminated a big distraction right there.

Onward and upward!

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See also: RSS | GTD | Information Management | Bit Literacy |

I don't know why, but I find food pr0n far more interesting than real estate pr0n. Part of it has to do with the fact that the food pr0n I view is produced by amateurs, real people cooking up real food. Earlier I posted about Lunch in a Box, from there I found this collection of tupperware bento lunches . They are fun to look at and probably more fun to eat, but at the same time they still come across as the talented chef next door making lunch. Mmmm .... lunch.

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See also: Food Pr0n | Lunches | Bento | Food | Flickr |

Everyday life in Iraq captured in a series of video shorts about the lives of 20-somethings. It's called Hometown Baghdad.

Hometown Baghdad was shot by an all-Iraqi crew and tells the stories of three young people trying to survive in Baghdad.

It's clearly not representative, but it feels very real.

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See also: War | Baghdad | Vlog | Iraq |

Hey, our own CMOM is guestblogging over at Idolator today; you can see all his posts here.

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I've recently gotten hooked on this lunch blog called Lunch in a Box: Building a Better Bento. The author packs these amazing little lunches for herself and her toddler in next to no time each day. She also explains how she does it, including full disclosure of the secrets of prep for speed and hygiene.

I'm tremendously impressed as somebody who can barely drag a tupperware box in 3 times a week. But the real reason I read it is that I can enjoy it without feeling guilty about my own habits at all, it's just pretty and non-judgmental. Oh, and I loved her rant against lunchables.

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See also: Food Pr0n | Lunches | Bento | Food |

Hey, Ishbadiddle is in an article on neighborhood blogs in the latest Park Slope Reader, available in fine stores everywhere. Well, not everywhere, but here. PDF version here in case the Community Bookstore is too far away.

The full uncut "interview" is below the fold. Some of it will look familiar.

Continue reading "Park Slope Reader" »


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Here are some amazing photos of a man in Liberia who is "blogging" sans blog:

In Monrovia, Liberia a unique form of journalism exists where the news is written out daily on a chalk board for everyone to read as they pass by on the busy main street. Alfred J. Sirleaf first established his chalk board news, " Daily Talk" on May 14th 2000 during the Charles Taylor regime. The innovative journalist saw a need for "straight to the point" reporting that was free and accessible to all. His provocative style of reporting the truth led him to seriously fear for this life and resulted in the Daily Talk being destroyed twice before he finally fled into "exile" in Ghana. As peace returned so did the Daily Talk and today it is one of the most read News Sources in the capital with thousands everyday taking the time to stop as they walk or drive by to get the breaking news. [Source]

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See also: Blogging | Liberia | Chalkboard |

Chris Rabb is helping fight the new unholy alliance between Fox News and the Congressional Black Caucus. One look at this video and it's easy to say why.

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See also: Fox News | Congress | Congressional Black Caucus |

I guess Big Ink wasn't really what we thought it was. Sorry about that, Curtis.

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Anyone who remembers the MySpace + Hotlinking + Goatse post from January will understand the basic mechanism here: McCain campaign sets up MySpace page. McCain's staffer uses someone else's template, and hotlinks the images from the designer's template. Designer changes the image. Hilarity ensues.

Via Mark.

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See also: 2008 Election | John McCain | MySpace | Nettiquette | Pranks | A Series of Tubes |

A couple of our favorite blogs, which were sadly dormant, are now re-broadcasting: F Train and Colin's own Big Ink. Good to see you both back on line.

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We've had folks hotlink images from TK's server before. Basically, hotlinking is where, instead of hosting an image on your own server, you just grab it from someone else's. This is considered rude, since your server gets hit every time they load their page. (I once got in a pissing match with another blogger about her hotlinking my image, but backed off when I realized that I was acting like an ass about it.) Now, for low-trafficked sites, this isn't usually a big deal, cost-wise. Sometimes a polite email will do the trick. Or you can swap the image, so that what they're linking to isn't what they originally wanted. For instance, some folks persisted in hotlinking the Flying Spaghetti Monster button I made, so I replaced this:

with this:

Some people are still using the WWJD version. Really.

So Jason Scott found that he was getting lots of hits on one image. Lots and lots and lots of hits. From Myspace.

So, he used the nuclear option -- he replaced it with Goatse. If you have to ask what Goaste is, you don't want to know. Really. The link will take you the Wikipedia page which describes it, if you must, but it's enough to know that it's a really really really offensive moving image. Somehow I myself have avoided seeing the damn thing, but I know enough to laugh heartily at the idea of hundreds of MySpacers suddenly seeing it. Scott's article is worth reading for his take on the MySpace phenonemon as the new AOL.

Story via Waxy.

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See also: Nettiquette | MySpace | Pranks |

A long list on Gawker. Good comments too. Via Gadgetopia.

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See also: Clichés | Lists |

The situation in Darfur is complex and confusing. The government in Khartoum uses that to its advantage, hiding it's actions in the fog, much in the same way the Khmer Rouge and other genocidal actors did in times past.

One way to follow events, surprisingly enough, is in Jan Pronk's blog. Pronk is the UN special envoy to the Sudan and he's very outspoken for a man in such a position. The government has just kicked him out of the country for comments that he made in the blog, so I don't know how useful it will be from here on in, but I plan to go back and read his last year of posts. I can't believe I had no idea such a thing existed!

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See also: Darfur | United Nations |

Rebecca Blood has an interesting piece on "How Social Media Works." How an extremely informative forum post from a gate agent on how First Class upgrades really work is not only extremely valuable to the company but also how it's spread to other readers. What's interesting is the role of Google et al. in this process:

One or two other bloggers may have picked up the link from Rafe, and one or two may pick it up from me, and their (likely smaller) audiences have also generated a small percentage of click-throughs. Some readers may email it to their friends. Incrementally, the word about this site, and this specific forum, will spread.

Also note that sometime yesterday, Google and Yahoo! and many others indexed my site, and Rafe's site, and from now on I'll receive visits from people who are on the Web searching for information on upgrades. The vast majority of my site traffic is not to my blog—it's to archived posts and essays, and the lists of resources I've put together on various subjects. That traffic comes primarily from search engines. People referred by search engines are (I would judge) highly likely to click through links, because they are actively looking for information on a specific topic.

Ishbadiddle also ends up getting most of its hits from search engines (lots of people looking for "Post Secrets" and, recently, image searches for "Justice League anime"). In the former case, the searchers have not only found something specific, they've created their own community -- 1254 comments and counting. In a way the search engines break down the conversation model of blogs by turning each post into a "node" that is independent of the overall blog. I wonder if any of the Secret-posters are reading the rest of Ish?

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See also: Distributed Culture | Search | Search Engines |

I recently saw this link: Making your blog popular through content

Um, is there another way to make your blog popular other than through your content? See my comments there for more discussion.

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Wow, the amount of chartjunk here is incredible. But it's pretty chartjunk: International Networks Archive \\ Remapping Our World.

Speaking of chartjunk, have you been reading the Junk Charts blog? Great stuff for all us infographics fans.

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See also: Tufte Alert | Design |

Last Saturday, at EFNY, Richard and I were talking about avoiding the news. The news is so bad lately, we agreed, that it was time to just stop reading it altogether. If there's anyone I would put toward the bottom of the list of people who would stop reading the news, it's former political operative Richard. That he came to the same decision as I did helped me come to terms with it.

I decided several weeks ago, actually, that it was time to wean myself of current events. I've stopped reading the New York Times -- the front section, at any rate. I've stopped reading political blogs. So long, Eschaton. It's not to say that I'm going to completely insulate myself from the world. I will of course keep reading Big Ink and Ennis' posts on Sepia Mutiny and all our friends' blogs many of which cover politics. And certainly, my fellow Ishers are free to post about politics and the news here. I am just no longer taking responsibility for what goes on in the world.

It's a strange thing to think about. Political involvement has been part of my identity for a good twenty years. Ever since I started a political journal in high school I have considered it my civic duty to be ever informed on current events. But hey, guess what? I'm not a politician. I'm not a journalist. I don't have to always know what's going on or have an answer for everything.

Phew. That's a world off my shoulders.

Who knows? Maybe someday the news will be safe again. For now, though, for the sake of my mental health, I'm a recovering news junkie.

Footnote: The title for this post is of course lifted from The Illuminatus! Trilogy where the phrase recurs reFnordpeatedly. I read it my freshman year of college, before the interwebs, so I was forced to use a dictionary (gasp!) to figure out what it meant! Immanentize, to make immanent, therefore to realize or bring about. The eschaton, of course, meaning the end of the world. (Atrios took the name Eschaton from the Wargames-meets-tennis game described in Infinite Jest.) So "don't immanentize the eschaton!" = "don't hasten the world's end!"

Well, sort of. According to Wikipedia, the phrase actually comes from the Gnostics, by way of William F. Buckley (really!) and basically means "don't try and bring about heaven on earth" or "stop being such a goddamn idealist." Although the Dispensationalist Christians do use the phrase in the sense that I thought it meant. So I wasn't completely wrong. Darn, does this mean I have to read Illuminatus! again?

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See also: PTSD | Gnosticism |

... like a blogger scorned.

Unless, of course the whole thing is just a viral ad campaign for a CourtTV show.

Weird times we're living in. Weird times.

Update: I saw some posters ("Lost Dog" with a picture of the "ex" "Steve") on the Upper East Side this morning.

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Boing Boing, Pajamas Media, and Talking Points Memo all link to his Sepia Mutiny post on why the mainstream American political blogs have mostly ignored the 7/11 bombings in Mumbai. A nice post, Ennis, and good to see the issue getting some attention.

In the meantime, I need to rewrite my own essay dealing with the bombing since it's largely incoherent and seems to say something other than what I want it to. Not sure I'll get to it today, though. I will say that I'm personally not dealing with this very well. I've had a buildup of PTSD triggers, and this isn't helping muchly. But I'll muddle through. Roll the rock up the hill, etc.

Blissful ignorance would be so much easier.

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See also: 7/11 Mumbai Bombing | Sepia Mutiny |

A pro-life blogger joins Fred Phelps and the Beijing Evening News in totally misunderstanding The Onion. Apparently there is no bridge which can span this sarchasm.

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See also: The Onion | Sarchasm | Satire | Abortion |

Felix has a great post up on Fast-Food and Glocalization: Shantou and the "Faking" of Brands. Yes, "Glocalization" is a word. Go read.

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See also: Anthropology | Globalization | Fast Food | China | Brands | Authenticity |

"I do believe the CDC just called for healthcare for pre-conceived fetuses."

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See also: CDC | Health | Health Care | Your Blank of the Day |

The internet, of course, is the greatest time suck ever invented.

And RSS feeds are like mainlining.

I pretty much visit only three web sites now -- my gmail account, this blog, and bloglines, which I use to read my RSS feeds. (Link goes to list of my feeds.) Why go surfing around, when (almost all) the sites I want are brought together in one place? Yeah.

The problem is, of course, keeping up. The entries keep coming in. Look, I have 982 unread posts! Better spend some time catching up there. Whoops, where did that two hours go?

Well as of today I am announcing: only 99 feeds. No more. If I want to add one, I've got to get rid of another. If God wanted us to read more than 99 feeds, God would have built an RSS reader into our brains.

I know that's like saying "I'm gonna cut back to only three packs a day." But hey, I've gotta start somewhere.

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See also: RSS | GTD | Information Management |

May 09, 2006: Will Work For Egoboo
The "whoring for comments" postOver the weekend, at our host's annual fete, several friends came up to me to express their opinions on some recent posts here on Ish. Recently, another friend emailed me a comment on a recent post. Folks, there's a comments ... »
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May 03, 2006: Welcome!
New to the blogroll, Ms. Frizzle! She's one of the blogs taking part in the Blogger Challenge -- check out the new leaderboard which just went live yesterday. »
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May 01, 2006: Not that I would have seen it anyway...
... but the flight 93 PR Blast pretty much clinches it. Via torrez. »
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April 18, 2006: Calling All Bloggers!
Help! So we are now officially launching the Blogger Challenge! And I need your help, O Loyal Ish Readers: 1) If you have your own blog, start your own Blogger Challenge. Help public school kids! 2) If you have your ... »
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April 13, 2006: The Mother Of All Comment Threads
So meta it makes my head hurt. Via Adventures in Ethics and Science, and from Greg. »
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March 08, 2006: One! Million! Blogs!
I read about this on pesky' -- this guy is putting a million blog icons on one page, and selling them off for a buck apiece. It's called, shockingly, One Million Blogs. Not too dissimilar to the Million Dollar Homepage, ... »
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February 21, 2006: Journalism On The Brink... Of What?
I'll be on a panel tonight sponsored by the New York Press Club on "Traditional Vs New Media" including: Jonathan Landman of The New York Times; Rachel Sklar of FishbowlNY; and New York University Journalism School professor Jay Rosen - ... »
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February 17, 2006: Introducing Big Ink
journalism/ media/ politics/ cultureHowdy. I'm now writing about journalism and the media (with a side dish of culture and politics) at my new blog Big Ink. Yeah, it's not as fun as Ish. But I blogged Ann Coulter's little voter registration problem, for ... »
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February 12, 2006: Autismland
I've started to read Autismland, a blog about a classicist and a theologian's efforts to raise an autistic boy. The blog is subtitled "The Autism Reality Show Starring Charlie" which indicates the extent to which their son's gravitational pull is ... »
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February 04, 2006: Show tunes 1, Bible 0
Preacher Lady 2: “I got freedom of speech! And GOD TELLS ME THAT THE GAY DEVILS ARE CONTROLLING NEW YORK.” Me: (standing up) “If you do not cease and desist fouling the air with homophobia, I must sing…SHOW TUNES.” There are now 3 or 4 gay men on the train. They start laughing. Preacher Lady 2: “The Lawd says you are going to …” (litany of punishments that would be fun with the right person). Me: (sings) “The Girl that I marry will have to be, as soft and as sweet as a nursery… the girl I call my own, will wear diamonds and laces and smell of cologne…”This sounds more like fantasy than reality, but it's amusing still, and worth reading the whole thing: At 42nd street, a woman strides into the car and starts PREACHING. The entire car bursts into laughter. I interrupt this new preacher ... »
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February 03, 2006: Blogue!
Daily Kos, Wonkette, Kaus Fierce with a computer mouse Metafilter, Dave Winer Peter Rojas, gadget finder They had style, they had grace Kottke had the interface »
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January 27, 2006: Four
Liz just tagged me with the four meme. Read on if you want to know fun facts about me! Ha! Also I mutated the meme, because I like doing that. »
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January 21, 2006: Random Apps of Kindness
This is a blog [Link] where my friend david and his friend julia (a chef turned MBA student) buy surprise dishes for strangers at restaurants and then write about their reactions. When two fashionable women, mother and daughter, sat down, ... »
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December 16, 2005: Ben & Zach's first blog review
Cute Overload. Ben: "That's so cute!" Zach: "I like that! I like all!" »
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December 07, 2005: More Blogrolling
Welcome to Felix's LJ, Inconsistencies, now on Ish's blogroll! Hi Felix! »
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October 26, 2005: Your Quote Of The Day
From pesky': "It’s clear that Right Wing family values are the same as those of the KKK—why, it’s like peanut butter and chocolate: perfect together. Except not so sweet and good." »
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October 24, 2005: Secrets, and Lies
PostSecret, the confessional / mail-art site, is coming out with a book -- you can pre-order now. Curiously, my first post on Post Secret is now one of the most popular pages here -- all from people Googling "post secrets" ... »
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October 05, 2005: Badvertising, Part N+1
Tom Coates at Plasticbag writes on what happens when a fictional blogger trying to market cleaning products gets personal: Earlier today I wrote a post about my father, who I haven't had any contact with for almost thirty years. It ... »
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September 22, 2005: Lifehacker's guide to weblog comments
Required reading for anyone who comments, or is thinking of commenting, or may ever comment on, this or any other blog. »
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September 22, 2005: Your Blog Quote Of The Day
"I realize that animal husbandry has to do with reproduction, I’d like to think women’s health is slightly elevated above the particulars of inseminating a farm animal." -- pesky'apostrophe on the appointment of a veterinarian, Norris Alderson, to head the ... »
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September 21, 2005: BibliOdyssey
Scans from rare books. Via things magazine. »
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August 25, 2005: FSM Button!
Inspired by the WWFSMD? sticker found on this blog, (seen at Boing Boing), I've created an 80 x 15 pixel "button" for those of you who want to help show your support for the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Please use and ... »
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August 19, 2005: Blog Enters Religious Fray
You didn't think you'd heard the last of the Flying Spaghetti Monster religion ("Pastafarianism"), did you? Boing Boing's $250,000 Intelligent Design challenge We are willing to pay any individual *$250,000 if they can produce empirical evidence which proves that Jesus ... »
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August 17, 2005: Ish's Second Moment of boing boing Fame
Hello, boing boing! This boing boing post revealing that pornos rot slower than other magazines reminded me of this Ishbadiddle "radioactive Playboy post" of about a year ago, and BB has so noted. Ish, previously on bb: Barbie gets a ... »
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August 16, 2005: 308 And Rising
Congratulations to Ennis' other blog, Sepia Munity, for making the Feedster "Top 500" blogs list! »
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August 03, 2005: Code Recipe
Elise of Learning Movable Type contacted me a while ago to ask if I'd write up my code recipe for creating the Subject / Tag / Keyword Index system here on Ishbadiddle. So far there are several folks using it, ... »
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August 01, 2005: What Everyone Should Know About Blog Depression
a nonist public service pamphlet »
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July 08, 2005: Current Mood: Worried
The World according to Livejournal. "A graphic representation of the moods reported by Livejournal users in their posts during the last days, updated every 10 minutes." Via emily. »
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June 24, 2005: "Three priests walk into my bistro."
A story of faith, redemption, and free dessert. »
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June 24, 2005: Warning!
Cool Tools pointed me to the St. Clair signbuilder, which enables you to make PDFs of ANSI Z535 compliant warning signs. (Whatever that means.) I couldn't resist making a few for political purposes, and/or for use on blogs. Download and ... »
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June 15, 2005: Darwinism is Slavery!
From a comment at Thudfactor's blog I surfed over to the blog "Church and State 101", where I found this argument: Well, we have bad news for the neo-Darwinian crowd: You folks CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. Either man really ... »
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May 05, 2005: "Dear myself listening to the Hitchhiker's Guide circa 1980-something late at night"
Rich writes himself a letter: Hey! I wrote you a similar letter a while ago, but let me just add that they finally make a really nice cinema version of this whole Hitchhiker thing - but not until 2005. Yes, ... »
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April 27, 2005: Tech News Roundup
In case of spider bite, apply cell phone cam. Is CNN spamblogging? Snails are faster than ADSL. »
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April 22, 2005: "When I was three I murdered some tomatoes. This was a crime and I was punished."
My Tricycle Was Repossessed »
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April 11, 2005: Post Secrets
Secrets, from the amusing to the disturbingA blog of postcards of anonymous secrets. Sort of a combination of mail art and the now-defunct Apology Line (featured on This American Life.) The cards range from the amusing to the disturbing. Note: Thanks to Google, this page has ... »
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April 05, 2005: The Annotated New York Times
Neat, but I can't figure out how they're picking their blogs. Or avoiding a lawsuit. »
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January 14, 2005: Meta-Tagging the Blogosphere
I was overthrilled to see in Boing Boing that Technorati is now aggregating Flickr and Del.icio.us links with meta-tagged blog posts. Ishbadiddle's subject coding is tailor-made for this application, and so with a brief bit of coding, every subject now ... »
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January 08, 2005: Tagging the Blogosphere
Looks like someone is actually going to try Ishbadiddle's subject coding scheme! »
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December 10, 2004: "Blim"
whatsapundit: mind if I turn this convo into a blog post? ishbadiddle: go ahead whatsapundit: ty ishbadiddle: go ahead and blim whatsapundit: first time i've seen the term. yours, or am i just again behind the curve whatsapundit: ? ishbadiddle: ... »
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November 15, 2004: News Roundup
It's clear how Social Security can be saved! Just have our Senators invest the money, since their investments outstrip the market by 12%! In the 2004 election, Zogby smells a rat. Well, two rats, actually. William Gibson on the CIA ... »
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November 12, 2004: The Purple Film Festival
Grant McCracken, over at This Blog Sits at the, has a great series of Advice to Democrats. In his latest, he recommends that in order to bridge the Culture Divide "we propose the 20 cultural documents that one side should ... »
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November 05, 2004: Political Strategy from "Political Strategy"
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. Stu Finkel and I went to Radnor High School together. He became an historian; I just married one. But we're both bloggers now (imagine that!) and so now Ish is proud to include Political Strategy, a group blog he's a ... »
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October 22, 2004: Turning a Blog Into a Semantic Web
Fixing the Fundamental Problem with BlogsSo, I've finally done it. I've turned Ishbadiddle into a semantic web, of sorts. 3.75 years of blogging, 2,341 posts, have all been imported, categorized, and coded. (With help from our posters of course!) There are now 1,385 keywords in ... »
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October 19, 2004: Calling All Conservative Bloggers!
You exposed RatherGate by proving the CBS documents were fake -- nice work! But now the liberals have found a bunch more documents so our work is not done. Let's get to work proving that these are fake, too! »
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October 06, 2004: Dot takes on Michelle Malkin on internment
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October 05, 2004: Site Update
Added two new sites to the Friends section of the links: welcome to Amardeep Singh ("Like nothing else in Tennesse") and This Blog Sits At The ("Intersection of Anthropology & Economics"). Both are friends of Ennis. Thanks for linking to ... »
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September 15, 2004: Welcome!
New on the links: Colin's great political blog Undecided Nation, the newly arisen Scorched Angel, and artist Regia Marinho. Also: Citizen Joe is up and running, providing the latest on policy issues, and pesky' is doing a series on -- ... »
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August 18, 2004: How to blog like an Anthropologist
Grant engages in fieldwork in ... his own fridge to demonstrate the kinds of blogs that anthropologists would find useful texts. »
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August 10, 2004: We refuse to file your taxes*!
In the time I really don't have (I should be living like a monk right now, with no internet access at all), I've joined another hive collective blog (can I be assimilated twice?). It's called Sepia Mutiny**, and it's a ... »
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May 05, 2004: Good Right-Wing Blogs
Thanks to Mike's Private Chance link to BlackFive, I've spent dozens of hours exploring the strange world of right-wing and militarist bloggers. Basically I went through all the BlackFive links. Most of what I found just frightened me and reminded ... »
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April 13, 2004: Instant Zeitgeist
With LiveJournal Images, you can see the most recent images posted to blogs on LiveJournal. [Warning: May not be safe for work!] Particularly interesting are the accidental juxtapositions, like this one: »
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April 11, 2004: This is why I don't read LGF
Or not so recently clicked since it was down when I tried it. via Brad DeLong: LittleGreenFootballs or Late German Fascists? (the LGF quiz): Care to test your knowledge of history and ear for dialogue? Each of the following 14 ... »
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March 22, 2004: Belle De Jour, unmasked?
Are any of these three the "real" Belle De Jour? »
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March 15, 2004: Some Odds & Ends
A few cool things from Eyebeam reBlog: The Zip Decoder Map The Bush - Kerry joint campaign blog The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes »
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March 03, 2004: "Blogs Are Ruining My Life."
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February 05, 2004: Howard's End?
News outlets are reporting that Howard Dean has sent an e-mail to his "Dean-iacs" announcing that if he loses Wisconsin, he'll quit the race. The e-mail actually reads (in part), "The entire race has come down to this: we must ... »
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February 03, 2004: NYTimes Permalinks
Use this New York Times Link Generator to make links that won't expire into their paid archives. I'm pretty sure this link is thanks to Frank. Thanks, Frank! »
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January 23, 2004: A Dot in Ghana
The other day I got an ususal IM minori89: greetings from ghana ishbadiddle: wow hi ishbadiddle: how was your trip? minori89: long! but worth it, ghana is amazing ishbadiddle: well it's bitterly cold here in new york, the setting sun ... »
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January 16, 2004: Watching the Press While It Watches the Candidates
CJR Campaign Desk One of the minor rituals of American presidential politics is the post-election self-examination (or perhaps I should say self-flagellation) by the press. Quadrennially, we regret having pursued some lines of inquiry while ignoring others, or having gotten ... »
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November 10, 2003: Wingnut Debate Dictionary
Currently housed at the (excellent blog) Ethel the Blog is a dictionary originally compiled by Atrios. I found several definitions to be most enlightening and amusing. »
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November 04, 2003: NYC Bloggers in the news, again
A while ago I got an email from a reporter at New York magazine, asking if I knew which of the 2,000+ blogs at NYC Bloggers was hip and all. I sent an email with some choice links, but never ... »
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October 30, 2003: I wonder who LGF is going to blame for this ...
It turns out that the latest critic of Ariel Sharon's Palestinian policies is ... (drumroll please) ... the Israeli army chief . [blatantly out of context excerpts below] The chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces has added his ... »
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October 29, 2003: From my friend Ian's blog
Read itI spent the next several hours believing I was actually going to jail. I knew this nation's draconian drug laws, and worse yet, the jocular, simian photo of George W. Bush was hanging on the wall of the customs ... »
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October 29, 2003: How to get hits (and fired)
If you've ever wondered how to get a lot of hits on your blog, look at blogdex, the daily index of what bloggers are linking to. Certain themes come up again and again. This story hits the blogdex trifecta: Microsoft-is-evil, ... »
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October 17, 2003: Blogs and Expertise
Blogs and Expertise »
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October 17, 2003: Google Grief.
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October 16, 2003: Everything in Moderation:
Creative ways to manage online communities »
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October 14, 2003: Welcome!
To our newest addition to the blogroll, WhatsAPundit. Head on over and say hello to Mark, check out his political and other writings. Tell him Ish sent 'ya. »
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October 02, 2003: Blogosphere goes Apeshit Over Plame Affair
Some advice: if you're the President, it's good to make friends with the CIA -- the agency in your goverment that knows how to overthrow governments. Well I haven't seen Blogdex this lit up over one issue since Trent Lott, or maybe iTunes. I presume I don't need to outline what's happened with Wilson, Plame, Novak, Bush, Rove, Ashcroft, and Schrödinger's cat in the last few ... »
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September 12, 2003: Essential Reads
Lets face it, we all have a list of books we think our friends should read. Share your "essential" reads in Liz's book club, cause she's a good person, and well, she needs the content. The list can be as ... »
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September 12, 2003: Type I Saw Today.
A photoblog about fonts, courtesy of Trip. »
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August 27, 2003: "The whole world is blogging! The whole world is blogging! The whole world is blogging!"
The World as a Blog.