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Friday Hoyden: Sady Doyle
By tigtog on May 11, 2012
Sady Doyle from the fantastic Tiger Beatdown blog gave Hoyden About Town a shout-out in a piece she wrote for In These Times – Blogging Sisterhood: How feminist blogs saved my life. So here’s a shout-out back, to one of my favourite writers!
Full Story »Posted in ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism, media, Meta, social justice | Tagged interblog, the blogosphere, the femmosphere | 10 Responses
Weekly Whimsy
By tigtog on April 11, 2012
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by the Map of the Dead – Zombie Survival Map. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Full Story »Posted in arts & entertainment, fun & hobbies, Meta | Tagged map, whimsy, zombies | 5 Responses
BFTP: This is what we use it for
By tigtog on April 11, 2012
The SF authors of the past might well have been surprised by the essential triviality of the way most of us use this amazing worldwide communication system we enjoy, but should they have been?
Full Story »Posted in arts & entertainment, fun & hobbies, media, Meta, relationships, Sociology | Tagged blogging, books & writing, internet, remixing, SF, trivia, video | 2 Responses
Farewell to Larvatus Prodeo
By tigtog on April 10, 2012
Australia’s big purple poliblog will no longer be publishing new posts. The archives will remain, and that goodbye post is filling up with nostalgic comments.
Full Story »Posted in culture wars, media, Meta, relationships | Tagged blogosphere | 15 Responses
10 rules for women blogging about their relationship woes
By blue milk on April 7, 2012
Before beginning your rant, and it will be a rant because you’re a woman writing this, always start that post with an apologetic, introductory paragraph about how truly nice your partner is and how he (and he will be a ‘he’) ‘helps’ you around the house and ‘helps’ you with the kids, a lot; really, [...]
Full Story »Posted in gender & feminism, Meta, parenting, relationships, social justice, work and family | Tagged gender roles | 4 Responses
Very, very tired
By tigtog on February 15, 2012
So tired. Even more tired than Chris Brown is of being reminded of things he’d rather we all forgot about.
Full Story »Posted in gender & feminism, Life, Meta, violence | Tagged bureaucracy, domestic violence, moan, whinge | 5 Responses
Call for Participants: Australian Blog Readers Survey
By Guest Hoyden on January 30, 2012
The survey is open to readers of the blog who live in Australia. The survey will be used in a forthcoming (2012) book on the internet and Australia.
Full Story »Posted in media, Meta, Politics, Sociology | Tagged internet, new media, survey | 6 Responses
On the ethics of ignoring your power: The Feministe controversy
By blue milk on January 22, 2012
There are some tough questions here, but also, some solid suggestions on what can be done to improve big feminist sites like Feministe for the people outside of mainstream power bases.
Full Story »Posted in ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism, Meta, relationships | Tagged blogging, the blogosphere | 17 Responses
Who are you calling a feminist?
By Mindy on January 12, 2012
Posted in Culture, gender & feminism, Life, Meta | Tagged anti-feminist, feminist | 10 Responses
Crowdsourcing: accessibility on wordpress.com?
By tigtog on January 11, 2012
I’ve noticed that quite a few of the trendy designs for blog templates on the free WordPress.com site, while looking very gorgeous and all, are just not that accessible for folks – pale grey fonts, especially tiny pale grey fonts, are the worst offender. I’d like to have a list of themes good and bad…
Full Story »Posted in Meta, social justice, technology | Tagged accessibility, blogging, website design | 9 Responses
Summer Slowdown appears to have arrived
By tigtog on December 6, 2011
…it will be school holidays soon, regardless of the weather, and Giftocalypse follows hard on those heels.
Full Story »Posted in Life, Meta | Tagged blast from the past, school holidays, Xmas | 4 Responses
Burzynski Clinic, meet Streisand Effect – you’re going to be spending some time together
By tigtog on November 29, 2011
When skeptics start questioning the scientific basis for the Burzynski Clinic’s highly expensive “antineoplaston” cancer therapy, that’s the time that you are supposed to offer proof of therapeutic benefit. Issuing threats instead tends to make it look like the Burzynski Clinic just doesn’t have any proofs to offer.
Full Story »Posted in ethics & philosophy, health, medicine, Meta, skeptics | Tagged cancer, pseudoscience, streisand effect | 9 Responses
G’day, Bingo Viewers!
By tigtog on November 28, 2011
There’s been an uptick over the last few weeks in site visitors clicking on links to Anti-Feminist Bingo and Anti-Feminist Bingo #2 – since comments on those posts have been long closed, I invite you to comment here instead, should you feel so inclined.
Full Story »Posted in ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism, Meta, social justice | Tagged gender essentialism, Play Bingo!, pseudoscience, stereotypes | 4 Responses
Downfall parody: #QantasLuxury
By tigtog on November 23, 2011
An example of when STFU might be a wonderfully good idea: attempting to get a pissed-off customer base to give you warm PR fuzzies might just not be the best idea within weeks of stranding 80K of them a long way away from where they actually wanted to be
Full Story »Posted in media, Meta | Tagged fail, PR, qantas, social networking | 4 Responses


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