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Refreshing home and head can be done together? if you run away…
Oh man, a fractious time. I went off and chewed off something big. It has worked out well, but at times I could feel the flesh melting off my bones with the stress. Two nice things happened as we took the first steps into a new space during this mad action. On our first home… Continue reading
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finally, June and into July.
another little belated note to finish off June.I’m going to put a blogroll here the next time I get some blog time. It will be easier to visit people quickly. I am contemplating some enjoyable internet slowness in the future.But I do wish that the journals I subscribe to would support Pocket for their subscribers… Continue reading
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breaking down the walls – from Substack to the feedreader
Another #blogjune post.I had a lovely time on Wednesday night cutting and pasting about twenty Substack feeds into Newsblur, HAHAHA take that Substack!The emails were driving me bonkers – I like the Substack app and the reader, and I don’t need the emails at all. So most of them are no longer clogging up my… Continue reading
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And speaking of blogging…
so i just jumped onto Mastodon, even though I’m feeling a teensy bit embarrassed about the ruminatory tone of this blog generally, to let my librarian friends know about my little #blogjune efforts. And what did I find? A link to a great post by Kathleen Fitzpatrick, a digital humanities professor from Michigan, on her… Continue reading
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The birth of innumerable fictions: the part time job
There was a well written and atmospheric piece in the Age some months ago, about a teenage job in a chicken shop, by the social affairs editor, Jewel Topsfield. It is very good – it sounds like the family she worked for was very kind and took care to teach her the smallest tasks thoroughly.… Continue reading
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#blogjune already, what the hey
Shot taken at Nicholas Gardens, Sherbrooke, Victoria in 2008 by me. Heh, this blog was created last #blogjune, amid growing concerns for the future of Twitter, and an examination in my own mind about what purpose microblogging had served me anyway. Over the last twelve months I think I’m slowly strengthening in an impulse to… Continue reading
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Embedded author is embedded, part 2 of 2
So another thought on social media occurred to me while sorting washing. (Carl Phillips, no less, suggests we stop and write down anything that occurs to us during the tasks that fall into our lives, that is, those that need to be done while we have nothing more to say. Read him on this (chapter… Continue reading
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Embedded author is embedded, part 1 of 2
Kate Lindsay, co-author of the engaging Substack newsletter on all things Internet called Embedded, has recently suggested that we may have reached social media capacity. In her post, she describes a process beginning from her youth on MySpace and progressing through other platforms over fifteen years to the fragmented social experiences she is having online… Continue reading
About Me
A space where an old school Australian blogger digs over the field again, with plenty of fallow periods. More about me above the header, and on these buttons – Genevieve Tucker.
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