It’s not really bye-bye Berkman blog, but I have had my own domain for ages – and today I decided to post something there. It’s about my perceptions of how blogging and online conversations have changed over the years.
Such a vivid dream: I wrote several long, tremendously satisfying blog posts. Once I woke up, I realized they weren’t there – yet. But at least I know they are there. PS: Apologies to Billy Bragg (I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs last night) with regard to my title – it was just a silly […]
Not sure what’s in the air, but I feel an immense quietude settling around me: everyone seems either muted or not saying anything I’m hearing, and I feel the same way about my own voice. (Is anyone reading this? Listening? I doubt it… I feel entirely erased somehow. And island-bound.) I could write a diatribe […]
My aching back suggests that blogging is like gleaning: it keeps me (intellectually) alive, but is generally thankless and often backbreaking. But the analogy is as artificial as a 19th century Salon painting.
Seven years ago yesterday (March 31, 2003) I posted my first entry on this site, Powers of Discrimination & SARS. For some reason, I’ve been convinced that my first post was April 1, 2003. But whether March 31 or April 1, this blogging endeavor hasn’t been a joke. Seven years. And now it might all […]
Proliferating platforms for blog posts allow comments to go all over the map. What do you do when some comments on a public post end up in a walled garden (like Facebook)?
I’m very fortunate. Since March/ April 2003 I’ve been able to blog for free, hosted by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. It’s an option open to anyone with a Harvard email address. While we all started with Radio Userland, Berkman switched everyone over to WordPress couple of years ago. But presumably because it’s […]
Just a note to let everyone know that in addition to this blog and the blog for MetroCascade, I also occasionally blog for the MetroCascade events blog, and I recently – since 2/11, making good on a long-standing promise – started blogging at Vibrant Victoria’s blog. Someone has to do it. There are so many […]
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