kahmelb | June 10, 2010
What’s the first rule of blogging? You don’t talk about blogging…
Actually, that’s not in the least bit true. I’ve just stuck it in there because it’s late in the afternoon, I’m seriously sleep deprived, and making awkward, meaningless references to 90s Brad Pitt movies is the kind of thing I do when I’ve been burning [...]
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kahmelb | February 6, 2010
Identity is such a loopy and elasticised thing. Our sense of self, our subjectivity, its a negotiated mix of experience and emotion, memory and learning. A personal mash up. A muddy path trodden between how others view us in any one place and time, and the way we understand our own good selves.
So where does that leave the personal blogger and her/his stranger readers, then?
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kahmelb | November 10, 2009
…OR – this freakin’ copyright thing doesn’t make much sense when we’re on the internets, does it?
It would be “cultural self-suicide”, according to a tautology-wielding Peter Carey. The Productivity Commission – that independent research and advisory body with the brief, for good or ill, to “help governments make better policies in the long term interest [...]
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kahmelb | June 8, 2009
This isn’t a very good blog.
Oh, I know what you’re all thinking. You’re all so horrified I could even suggest such, as you collapse back with wailing tears at the thought I could so demean this wee site of mine, crying out in hurt anguish “but no, it’s perfect, we tell you it’s perfect!”
Yeah, well, [...]
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