Neck playing up so avoiding typing, please forgive the linkfest. Greeting me when I opened my Seesmic this morning were these stories:
media
old, new, social, global, cross platforms etc.
Quick Hit: Do not adjust your sets
This is a real six year old. Needless to say most six year olds don’t look like this. More on this from Pavlov’s Cat here and here. I just don’t get it.
Who’s using Dribbble?
Anybody? It looks very interesting, but I’m hesitant to sign up for yet another thing without knowing how other people are finding it usability-wise etc.
A Prize of One’s Own
A group of Australian women writers and publishers are working to set up an equivalent of the Orange prize in their country, to combat what they describe as “the systemic exclusion of women writers over several decades” from the country’s major literary awards.
Quick Hit: Today in ‘equality’
Her refusal to cheer for him in basketball games led to her being thrown off the team, and she then sought to sue her school (specifically for infringing her freedom of speech).
Systemic Imbalance and Marginalised Voices: Feminism FOR REAL
This anthology was launched in March, but in a fine example of its major theme regarding whose voices get sidelined in the feminism movement, most of the femosphere appears to not have heard of it until it was centred in a blogstorm this week.
Shameless Thank You Plug For Helping Us Dodge The Media Circus
The whole tog family will be dodging the big wedding dress revelation tonight by going to see a comedy show instead. Thank you, generous John Robertson!
Apparently there’s no context on Twitter
So it’s said, by nong after dreary nong around the interwebs. It’s just that one string of 140 characters, that’s it!
I know which I’ll choose
cheers for the fat panic, Fairfax! God forbid a day go by without a reminder of the foul spectre of the fatty fatfats that threaten to destroy our society.
Rougher than usual: The Monthly on Julian Assange and consent
Yet again, I was approaching an article on Julian Assange, this time in the Monthly by Guy Rundle, Crayfish Summer: Julian Assange, Sex crime and Feminism, with low expectations. Most of the blogosphere and media appears to have eaten up… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 