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Call for Participants: Australian Blog Readers Survey
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.
The 44th Down Under Feminists Carnival
This is the 44th monthly Down Under Feminists Carnival. This edition of the carnival gathers together December 2011 feminist posts from writers living in Australia and New Zealand.
On the ethics of ignoring your power: The Feministe controversy
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.
Who are you calling a feminist?
Who are you calling feminist?
Crowdsourcing: accessibility on wordpress.com?
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…
Summer Slowdown appears to have arrived
…it will be school holidays soon, regardless of the weather, and Giftocalypse follows hard on those heels.
Click over to the 43rd Down Under Feminists Carnival!
Deborah of A Bee of a Certain Age has once more supplied us with the Down Under Feminists Carnival, with DUFC edition number 43. It is a rather lovely one, so please go on over and click some links to… Read More ›
Recently in privacy
Privacy concerns, location monitoring, surveillance culture – especially relevant given the recent “Privacy is for Paedos” line spun by an ex-editor of the News of the World at the UK phone-hacking inquiry.
Recently in WTF
Some of these links will elicit louder WTFs than others.
Hoyden About Town 