11 posts tagged “blogs”
I can't put him in the people I admire category of this blog yet but I will say that my thoughts about this gentleman have been provoked by my recent fortutious discovery of his work. I was recently listening to an interview between Danah Boyd and Henry Jenkins that I linked to from Danah's web site. Danah is a force unto herself and I thank her for exposing me to Henry Jenkins. Danah's interview with Jenkins took place at the SXSW festival a few years ago. Nonetheless I was more intrigued by the recent headline that passed across my computer desktop from The Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus alert. That headline reads "Is MIT's Henry Jenkins the Marshall McLuhan of the Web 2.0 Era?". I've long been a fan of Marshall McLuhan who I was first exposed to by my own father as a child. To compare someone to McLuhan would definitely get my attention.
You will find a link to the interview between Danah Boyd and Henry Jenkins on Danah's del.icio.us page here.
The article from The Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus about Henry Jenkins is here.
Jenkins also has a wonderful website and blog here.
I think this guy will evenutally become a person that I admire.
I've got a new one. I actually became familiar with her over a year ago when I was living with my mother back in South Carolina and spending a lot of time online searching and reading blogs related to new media. Zadi Diaz is the bomb! If you don't believe me just check out her online presence which is in so many provocative and mindblowing different forms. I'll just call her a new media goddess. There is so much to learn from this young lady and I've only begun to scratch the surface. Thanks Zadi for all you do. I look for much bigger things from you down the road. You are a great inspiration to me.
I blogged recently about my curiousity with the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as the new leader of France. I am still cautiously watching this gentleman and I have to thank Laila Lalami for this recent post on her blog that clues me in to what Sarkozy may be up to with regard to French relations with that country's former African colonies. Read here.
When I first began this blog back in July of 2006 there were several inspirations. Prior to moving to ABQ I was living with my mother in Columbia, SC and I spent a lot of productive time online. I discovered Georgia Popplewell at this time. I mentioned Georgia in a previous post here. She is definitely an inspiration for this blog and provides a good model for the types of things I would like to do eventually with media and the Internet.
In brief, Popplewell can be described as a media producer, journalist, editor, blogger based in Trinidad. She has been involved with independent television in the Caribbean since 1989. Her writing includes broad coverage of culture, music, film, literature, and sport. The best way to check out why I love Georgia so much is to spend some time with Caribbean Free Radio, the first podcast based in the Caribbean that Georgia started in 2005. Popplewell is also a co-Managing Editor and Podcast Editor at one of my favorite places on the Internet, Global Voices. Here's a good portal to see all that Georiga Popplewell is up to ... I also go to Georgia for issues related to productivity and information regarding technology here at what she calls the "Digital Caribbean".
Thanks for inspiring me Georgia ... I'll see what I can do to bring my own version of your media expertise to Albuquerque, New Mexico ...
The byline of my blog is math, myth, and metaphor. The major lens through which this blog should be ultimately viewed is LANGUAGE. I recently posted about foreign language study debates in Pennsylvania. I came across this today while reading LaBloga which is one of my favorite blogs on the Internet. Please go here for further information.
Before I began blogging I spent a great deal of time online reading other people's blogs. Before I moved to Albuquerque I was considering moving to Chapel Hill, NC. During that time I became familiar with Ruby Sinreich who has just the kind of web presence and career trajectory that I would like to develop for myself one day. She was one of the major inspirations for my blog.
I was reading through my Google alerts just now and hitting all of those that pertained to Lawrence Lessig who I blogged about recently. It seems like Ruby and I are on the same page as I discovered she is a fan of Lessig as well and had just blogged about him too.
Ruby Sinreich calls herself a "progressive activist, local politico, professional organizer, and compulsive blogger". She lives in Chapel Hill, NC and kicks much ass. For more information about her please go here and here.
In case you haven't noticed I have taken the plunge into the blogosphere by using the Vox platform created by the organization at Six Apart. It's a pretty good system so far.
I have spent the past 8 months reading a great many blogs from all sorts of sources. Most blogs contain a blogroll. A blogroll is a collection of links to other blogs. You can often find blogrolls on the front page sidebar of most blogs. In the absence of a blogroll function as of yet in the Vox platform, I will periodically delineate from time to time, blogs that I read, blogs that I find interesting, and blogs that I deem important. It is my hope that Vox will offer a blogroll feature at some point. Also those of you who read this blog, please feel more than free to use the comment feature found at the top of each post. I'd love to hear what you think.
Blogs that I read, find interesting, and deem important:
White African - When I first began exploring the blogosphere I wanted to flesh out as many blogs as I could related to Africa and African-American subject matter. Lo and behold I came aross White African through a rather circuitous Internet search and have been very impressed by this young man's attempt to seriously broach the issue of African identity as well as an in-depth exploration of technology and its implications for the African continent. The author is indeed a "White African" and the subtitle of his blog is "where Africa and technology collide".
Womenfolk - I am a complete sucker for female singer songwriters. I admire and adore Joni Mitchell. I give utmost respect and propers to Odetta. I possess a wonder and fascination with the ethereal and breath taking vocal orchestration of Sarah Mclachlan. While living in Boston I made a point of seeking out any place and every place that Rose Polenzani
was busking and performing. I think she must have lived in Somerville at the same time I did because I caught her busking at the Davis Square "T" stop several mornings in a row during a particularly cold winter and her voice gave me comfort amidst the snow and frosty weather. In any case, Womenfolk is a blog devoted to women and their music. Most of it seems to be based on folk music. Although that description would be too limiting. It is also what is known as an audio blog. There are numerous links to audio files of the featured performers. I've been introduced to some great new music through this blog in the past few months. In particular I am interested in exploring more from Martha Berner and Kristin Diable.
Veerle's Blog - The past few months have found me reading a great many articles in the magazines "Business 2.0", "Fast Company" and "Businessweek". Buzz words in recent articles of those magazines include creativity, innovation, and design. I began reading more about design thinking and started paying attention to the blogs of graphic and web designers. I'll be writing much more about the whole area of graphic and web design at a later date. Suffice it to say that Veerle's Blog is perhaps one of the most visually stunning and most provocative sites on the Internet. I'm still a bit of a dilettante when it comes to graphic and web design however I plan to take a deep plunge in the next few months by learning Dreamweaver, learning more Photoshop, and getting my feet wet with Illustrator and InDesign. Veerle's Blog has been more than an inspiration.
CultureSpace - What can I say? M.S. Smith has almost identical tastes and interests to my own. His exploration of film and literature are always spot on. He even includes an occassional post on basketball, another big area of interest for me. I would prompt anyone who considers themselves a serious student of film or literature to read CultureSpace religiously. I know I do.
