Some links I want to share/remember as I try to catch up on blog reading and such:
- MSNBC: And Tango Makes Three topped the American Library Association’s 2006 list of most “challenged” books, because supposedly, it promotes homosexuality. Interestingly enough, Higher Power was also on the list because it included the word scrotum, a word that, oddly, the MSNBC article decided it needed to define.
- 2 Board Alley: “More and more it seems like commenters don’t talk with each other on the blogs that I read. More and more it seems like call and response: the blogger writes a post and the readers respond to it, but not to each other. What happened?”
- Henry Jenkins interviews Stephen Duncombe, author of Dream:Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in the Age of Fantasy, which I really want to read now. I relied on Duncombe’s Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture for the third chapter of my thesis for understanding zines and blogs. Interview: part one, part two.
- Via Harmonia’s Necklace, a blog about LGBT children and young adult literature, Worth the Trip.
- Via jill/txt, a Wired article about the information on your laptop. A judge ruled that officials cannot search a laptop’s memory without suspicion because it is an extension of the mind:
“Electronic storage devices function as an extension of our own memory,“ Judge Dean Pregerson wrote. “They are capable of storing our thoughts, ranging from the most whimsical to the most profound. Therefore, government intrusions into the mind — specifically those that would cause fear or apprehension in a reasonable person — are no less deserving of Fourth Amendment scrutiny than intrusions that are physical in nature.“
How is that for cyborgic?
- Via jill/txt again, Amy Webb provides a visual of who owns what in Web 2.0. Turns out Google and Yahoo! own a heck of a lot more than arch-villain Rupert Murdoch.
- Via Metaspencer, a list of scholarly definitions of rhetoric.
So, my laptop battery is about to die and I (like a moron) left my cord at home, so I’ll probably be back with more quick notes later.
