March 2009

Social Media Carnival (BIP Week 5)

by Kim on March 14, 2009 · 11 comments

Thank you to everyone who submitted posts for the Blog Improvement Project Social Media Carnival. We have post on a whole variety of topics, so feel free to scroll around and learn more about social media that’s interesting for you. Some Overviews Margot at Joyfully Retired wrote an excellent post pointing out the uses of [...]

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The Dork Is On Vacation!

by Kim on March 13, 2009 · 7 comments

Yup, that’s right, it’s officially Spring Break for students at UW-Madison so this Dork is finally taking a break! Sister and I are leaving for San Francisco on Sunday morning to visit some of my friends from college, so I won’t be blogging much. I will be posting the BIP Week 5 Social Media Carnival, [...]

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Using Delicious for Blogging (BIP Week 5)

by Kim on March 12, 2009 · 8 comments

March is Social Media Month for the Blog Improvement Project, and the first task is to write about how you use a social media tool to improve your blog. I thought about writing on a bunch of different things, but finally decided to write about Delicious because it is one of the only tools I [...]

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Review: Dangerous Laughter

by Kim on March 11, 2009 · 9 comments

You know, I have to admit that I have no idea how to review a short story collection like Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser.  I liked it a lot, so it’s tempting to go and tell you about every story in the book, but I think I that would get tedious if you haven’t read [...]

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Emerson, Self-Reliance

by Kim on March 10, 2009 · 0 comments

This week’s Weekly Geeks challenge is a repeat of an earlier topic, Quote-A-Day. I’ve been terrible and not posted a quote yet, but was inspired today after talking to a friend about Emerson’s essay, “Self-Reliance.” This is one of my favorite parts of the essay: I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My [...]

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Penny Arcade! – Progress

by Kim on March 9, 2009 · 8 comments

For all book lovers, today’s comic on Penny Arcade.

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The Sunday Salon: Watchmen and Women's History

by Kim on March 8, 2009 · 6 comments

It’s been a quiet week here at the blog, but that’ s because I just needed a break from blogging.  I just couldn’t think of much to write about, so I figured I’d just not write anything. In place of blogging, I got a lot of other things done.  I finished reading Dangerous Laughter by [...]

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Review: Lipstick Jihad

by Kim on March 4, 2009 · 12 comments

Lipstick Jihad is journalist Azadeh Moaveni’s memoir about growing up “Iranian in America and American in Iran.”  As a child, Moaveni moved with her mother to southern California, then after college returned to Tehran to work as a journalist.   While there, Moaveni discovers a country going through a sort of adolescent struggle to find [...]

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Blog Improvement Project Week 5: Social Media Carnival

by Kim on March 2, 2009 · 22 comments

Thanks to everyone who participated in Week 4 of the BIP where we worked on blog basics. It was nice to take a little break and work on some things that I needed to do around here. I hope everyone else felt the same. Because I love alliteration, March is going to be Social Media [...]

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The Sunday Salon: Reading Dangerous Laughter

by Kim on March 1, 2009 · 6 comments

It has been a great reading week this week!  I’ve been moving slowly through Steven Millhauser’s Dangerous Laughter, a book of short stories that I’m reading for the March Book Menage over at Citizen Reader. I don’t read short story collections very often, but so far I am quite enjoying it.  I’m used to just [...]

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