Posts Tagged ‘Blogging’
Antidotes
Posted by: annieem on: July 18, 2009
1. To the odd recent overabundance of male midlife crisis novels:
Spending by Mary Gordon. No longer a new novel, but the first one I’ve found in my stack that provided just what I needed. The Times reviewer concedes that the sex scenes are “prettily written” (!), but they are truly erotic. And the novel appeals not just to [...]
Monday Meanderings
Posted by: annieem on: June 22, 2009
Is it summer yet? The calendar says so, but the weather? Not so much.
NPR essay submitted: now the wait to hear from the editor (I’ve been practicing my radio voice)
Summer school teaching online: new graduate students. Generally a pleasure to work with, although each June I must remember that they are only gradually realizing that [...]
Multiple Blogiality Disorder
Posted by: annieem on: June 5, 2009
Last December I gave a lecture on Oprah’s Book Club, and based on my emphatically positive spin on the Oprah Effect, I was recruited by an eager colleague to assist in starting a faculty and staff blog: a public space for our rapidly growing institution to remind each other who we are and what we [...]
Summertime Blogging
Posted by: annieem on: May 26, 2009
The Academic Blogosphere (the blogging world in which I live) seems to go on semi-hiatus once classes end—or at least once they end for you semester system schools. We on the quarter system are still plugging away for 2 more weeks. Interestingly, I’ve found few community college instructors who are bloggers (as is also true with [...]
Faceblogging: The Daily Us
Posted by: annieem on: March 29, 2009
One theme that has come up in the blogosphere lately is that Facebook (aka FB) has, as Dr. Virago so pithily put it, “killed the blogosphere star.” Now, I’m no blogosphere star like others who’ve blamed their FBing for their missing bloggings, i.e. Orange Tangerine, or another, who, despite dozens of pleas from dozens of [...]
Caturdays
Posted by: annieem on: February 27, 2009
This is Joey in the dryer.
It seems that Fridays have been catblogging days since, oh, 2004 according to this NY Times article and this more recent Salon posting (that includes lots of fun links to kitties, and places the catblogging in our current-day media-saturated doggy context).
Here is Peekaboo with a nameless deer. Alas, Peekaboo died last [...]
Sunday Night Musings
Posted by: annieem on: December 14, 2008
When I first started graduate school, I immediately started having panic attacks. It was clearly not ideal timing, but something about taking classes and teaching (since my en route Ph.D. program “allowed” us to teach our own composition classes at the same time we were taking classes) gave me both the space and the elevated [...]
All My Internet Friends
Posted by: annieem on: December 11, 2008
Long time, prolific and sometimes dangerous professor blogger Michael Bérubé has kindly asked his readers to spread the gospel word about one of his Internet friend’s new song, “All My Internet Friends” by Amanda French. I’m happy to oblige.
On Blogrolls and Sitemeters
Posted by: annieem on: November 24, 2008
Here’s a possibly naïve bloggy etiquette question: should I ask, or, at the very least, inform, those bloggers whose blogs I add to my Blogroll? WordPress bloggers are notified when they are blogrolled, but it’s not clear to me if other blog writers I link to are notified. [Note to self: read up on Pings [...]
