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the craft of blogging, interblog incidents, troll-patrol etc

The Inauguration Will Be LiveBlogChatted

Edit 20 Jan: Just bumping this up as a reminder. Are there any more regular/known-to-me Hoydenizens willing to be added as panellists? The upside, for you, is that your comments will be put through to the liveblogchat window immediately. The downside is that I’ll ask you to help with approving guest comments through. If you can only be there for part of it, that’s fine too.

Weblog awards: Middling Midsize Blog

The 2008 Weblog Awards

Thankyou to everyone who participated in the Weblog Awards!

Turns out Hoyden About Town came dead middle in the field of midsize blogs. There’s a tagline in that somewhere, though I can’t quite find it.

The finalists in the 2009 Bloggies will be announced in a week. I hope some feminist blogs will be recognised

Sampler: from Ethics and Philosophy

Carrying on from Lauredhel’s idea of showcasing some memorable posts for visitors arriving via the Weblog Awards, I’ve chosen the Ethics and Philosophy category as my first showcase post because in so many ways it sums up a lot of what inspires me to write. I find it distressing that so much of our public discourse relies on laziness in terms of examining the ethics of proposed courses of action, and that so little attention is paid to the underlying logic and consistency (or lack thereof) contained in the philosophies that inform ideologies. Also, that so many people use the faceless nature of the Web to behave unethically.

Weblog Awards Finalist!

We’re in the Best Midsize Blog category. This means we’re up against : Zomblog Betsy’s Page The Sideshow Israel Matzav Argghhh! Rod 2.0 At Largely Scholars And Rogues Suburban Guerilla Voting starts on January 5. Congratulations to Shakesville for their… Read More ›

Femmostroppo retrospective 2008

Nominations for the most memorable feminist posts of 2008 will open soon. See last year’s post for guidelines. This year the collection will be published by the end of January, deffo!