Category: Music

  • Why are most popular political bloggers men?

    The Columbia Journalism Review’s Campaign Desk blog recently ran an interesting article treading that familiar territory of comparing the abundance of public-minded outspoken masculine weblogs with the paucity of famous political blogs by women. The author of The Blogosphere: Boys ‘n’ Their Toys (even the title is reminiscent of the title of a Shelley Powers…

  • My blogspace

    One meme going around these days is people posting photos of the place they blog from, so here’s mine: UPDATE: Kaye Trammel is collecting a list of links to such pictures on her blog, so this is mass communication?.

  • Bread in a can

    Bread in a Can Originally uploaded by caterina on 31 Dec 69, 4.00pm PST Posted by xian from Well, I’m posting this partly just to test the flickr-to-weblog interface but also because there’s something indescribably delicious about the idea of bread-in-a-can.

  • Why do businesspeople love magic squares?

    I’m the same way. I love it when you can talk about all music as popular and good, popular and bad, unpopular and good, or unpopular and bad. I love magic squares. Is it because they’re very small databases?

  • Last week

    Monday I invited some potential speakers for the upcoming Waterside conference this April, had lunch with Phil Wolff and interviewed him for my book, and then deal with a flat tire on Eve. I wasn’t carrying my insurance company’s roadside help card, so I called B (on Phil’s cell phone) and asked her to call…

  • Found poem but why?

    I like it, but I don’t get why anyone would bother to send it: Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:07:33 -0800 From: “Terry Rhodes” To: Lenore Subject: resurgent toss divan soon sebastian infamous tomato boggle fortify bellamy