Tag Archive for 'blogging'

The aesthetics of hyperlinking

This post is long, overdue, and wordy, and some of it was written while I had a fever. So I present as a pre-emptive antidote a very enjoyable and quite silly browser game about information overload.

Blog-blocked by the Times paywall

What I wanted to do today was to write a blog post about how authorial identity affects the construction of meaning in articles published online. I wanted to use @caitlinmoran’s brilliant interview with Lady Gaga to talk about how Roland Barthes‘ 1977 essay on the Death of the Author might apply (a) to construction of [...]

Silver roses and cigars

This is a little test to see how Posterous works, using a little decoration I made from detritus from my wedding day. Posted via email from InterMediaMary

Blowing the dust away

Since I last wrote in this blog I’ve gained a husband, spent two weeks in the Lake District with just him and the sky for company, and been incredibly, wondrously happy. I’ve also been thinking a little about making this blog somewhere that’s fun to write in and fun to read. It’s a little tempting [...]

The economy of not linking

So the New York Post printed a story without crediting the blogger who originally broke it – and the journalist whose byline is on the Post piece claimed it was an editorial policy not to credit blogs for scoops.



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