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How my mother's fanatical feminist views tore us apart, by the daughter of The Color Purple author | Mail Online
Rebecca Walker has written the Mommy Dearest of the feminist movement about her mother, Alice Walker.
The Web Habits of Highly Effective People | Online Only | Granta
Ask everyone you know what their web habits are: it reveals a lot you won't have known before, about them and about Internet use. Here some authors and folks in publishing talk about what they do, with links.
www.theory.org.uk Resources: Anthony Giddens
A brief introduction to Giddens' general approach, plus more detail on his ideas about self, gender and identity in modern societies; great mother site for culture and media theory
raindance.co.uk:The 9 Elements of Great Films
an interesting web site not just for indie directors but film lovers, too; this entry, for example, promotes good thinking about what one might want from a fiction film
TRANSFORMATIONS
special issue 07 with a variety of applications of Benjamin's ideas and cultural/historical approach to current issues : "Walter Benjamin and the Virtual: Politics, Art, and Mediation in the Age of Global Culture"
Is Oprah Going to Save the Internet? - ReadWriteWeb
Oprah's live streaming video book reviews deliver up .5 million simultaneous streams in a two-week period; later available as podcasts on iTunes; breathes new life both into book sales and podcasts
American Cinematographer Magazine: March 2008 - Table of Contents
journal of Hollywood craft union for film and tv cinematographers; also a podcast available; fascinating for all film buffs
TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | Cafe Reactions to the Obama Speech
links to blogs that analyze reactions to Obama's speech on race, furthering the discussion of race in US today; it has been a long time since I have seen such a sensible, full discussion of race in public discourse here
darkmatter » Home
"interrogating contested issues of multiculture, while eschewing current orthodoxies"; postcolonial, race, cultural studies theory, with a focus on the politics of everdaylife
Flickr: The AMERICAN FOOD Pool
240 members in this group; collectively the images have a kind of gossipy, material culture, ethnographic appeal, a glimpse into an intimate aspect of daily life
FlowTV | From Cynicism to Sentimentality: The Rise of the Quirky Indie
since I found this year's crop of pregnancy and childbirth films distressing, this entry and comments seem apt
Documenting "The Other Half": The Social Reform Photography of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine
Depression era photographers
Introduction to New Historicism
broad, multi-layered website, of interest to those in cultural studies, film studies, literary studies, and other areas of the humanities; some good summaries of work of major thinkers
Indranet • Technology, psychology, sexuality, society, spirituality
sophisticated philosophical observations about computer use
FAQ: What's next for Microsoft's Yahoo bid? | Tech News on ZDNet
more info about major move in telecom industry
Prepare For Your Death Online: 20+ Helpful Tools
what about your email, blog, or website after you die; getting in touch with loved ones and creating a memorial site for others; doing a will online
BBC NEWS | Technology | The invisible computer revolution
cel phones throughout the world are handheld computers and can be enhanced with better software, providing, for example, a sophisticated database to health providers in the poorest areas; better than laptops can now
if:book: youtube purges: fair use tested
Media Commons, sponsor of In Media Res, a media analysis site, had many of its links taken down when YouTube purged copywritten material; they remounted copies of the clips on their own server and note their fair use statement.
The debate about the worth of podcasting (Scripting News)
"I do a podcast from time to time because I want to say something. Whether I can run an ad on my podcast means nothing to me because I would never do it." Perhaps blogging and podcasting belong best to the gift economy.
Food for Thought: It's Spud Time, Science News Online, Jan. 5, 2008
UN calls 2008 "Year of the Potato": "it yields more food, more quickly, on less land, and in harsher climates than any other major crop. Up to 85 percent of the plant is edible, compared to only about 50 percent for cereal grains"
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