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Making the private public: a practical example from flickr

March 15th, 2005 · No Comments

I’ve seen the flickr tags whats in your bag and whats in my bag circulating recently. These pictures of bags beside their contents serve as excellent examples of people choosing to make the private public. Discovering the numerous intimate items people carry inside their luggage feels at once amusing, assuring and voyeuristic to me, in […]

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Tell me a story please

March 15th, 2005 · No Comments

What makes life worth living? Stories. But a story has to be told. It almost demands to be told. – Andi at Ditch the Raft [found via Annie at Ambivablog] …what motivates people are stories…Narratives speak to the inner spirit…in short, they help us to become the people we want to be. – Harvey Cox […]

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Purple sky or How to know your camera is kaput

March 5th, 2005 · 1 Comment

When we first bought our digital camera, almost five years ago, I thought of it as “Ted’s”. I had the simple film camera, which still seemed more practical to me, since we didn’t have a proper printer, and he had the Canon Powershot whose images could live only on the computer. I didn’t use the […]

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Disillusioned with blogging: a dialogue

February 18th, 2005 · 3 Comments

David Weinberger appreciates the insight and wisdom Lisa Williams shares and so do I. In recent weeks, I’ve felt disillusioned with blogging, frustrated by its limitations and awkwardness, by my inability to be who I am on my blog. I have felt I am being inauthentic, false, living a dual life. However, especially after the […]

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Turning on the TV last night: “Why are bloggers always getting fired?”

February 10th, 2005 · 1 Comment

I don’t watch tv, instead I read and write blogs. But last night bloggers convinced me to turn on the tv (actually through one of our computers). First Heather B. Armstrong, dooce, posted that she would be on ABC World News Tonight. So we turned on the television to see Heather typing dork repeatedly into […]

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