Monthly Archives: December 2006

Did someone say the R word at a school board meeting?

Posted on December 30, 2006 by Liz Henry

The rounds of meetings for the school district’s NCLB plan have been very interesting. This meeting had a fairly low bullshit level and the speakers were persuasive. Around 25 parents and teachers were there. Some background: Last year several more … Continue reading →

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Misogynist stereotypes on Valleywag

Posted on December 24, 2006 by Liz Henry

I don’t care what Sandy Montenegro Littlefield is actually like; I don’t know her, and I’ve never met her. Also, I am not intrinsically fond of superwealthy society people. Who knew that “Gentry” magazine even existed! Not me! Gentry. Wow. … Continue reading →

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Gender and genre in blogs

Posted on December 21, 2006 by Liz Henry

In her paper on Gender and genre variation in weblogs Susan Herring and her team hypothesized differences between male- and female-authored blogs. I haven’t read the paper closely enough to get the detail, but the gist of it is they … Continue reading →

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Five things you probably don’t know about me

Posted on December 18, 2006 by Liz Henry

I got tagged for this meme by Chris Carfi of The Social Customer Manifesto. It was interesting reading Chris’s 5 things and following some of his links. I also came across The Blog Tag Tree which traces a bit of … Continue reading →

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Trivium, twittering, gregarious behavior

Posted on December 14, 2006 by Liz Henry

twittering Originally uploaded by Liz Henry. Some rambling thoughts on twitteration, or twitteritude: Twitter is fun. It’s a microblogging site; your entries are strictly limited to just a couple of lines of text. You can friend people and get their … Continue reading →

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Excellent feminist rant on being "of a time"

Posted on December 11, 2006 by Liz Henry

I really enjoyed Ide Cyan’s “Timeless” on the Feminist SF blog; it’s a polemic on Time and social change, and was sparked by Ide’s notice of the ubiquity of the defense that a sexist or racist or otherwise annoyingly biased … Continue reading →

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Writers With Drinks report, Saturday Dec. 9

Posted on December 11, 2006 by Liz Henry

Writers With Drinks, at the Makeout Room in San Francisco, was fabulous again. Indigo Moor, a poet from Sacramento, read first. He was a dynamic and clear speaker, funny, warm, with a lot of stage presence, and I enjoyed his … Continue reading →

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Why I like LibraryThing

Posted on December 10, 2006 by Liz Henry

I was trying to explain tonight to Annalee why I like LibraryThing. “What’s it FOR? Is it a book recommender? Or is it data about a book?” No… no… it’s for building a picture of knowledge and of people. When … Continue reading →

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Vote for BlogHer for best community!

Posted on December 9, 2006 by Liz Henry

As a contributing editor to BlogHer (World/Latin America and Caribbean) I’d like to ask that you vote (daily!) for BlogHer for best online community of 2006: Vote daily for BlogHer as Best Online Community If you like my coverage of … Continue reading →

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