Author: Timothy Yu

Stephanie with some good remarks on Steve Evans‘s Flaubertian critique of blogging: too tired to respond in full now, but it puts me somewhat in mind of something I came across on William Gibson’s blog from a few weeks back on blogging. Still not sure how I feel about this one, but: “One of the reasons, I’m convinced, that I’ve…

Aargh! I have been called “too obvious” by a man who named his blog after himself! It’s like the pot calling the kettle Ron Silliman.

Cassie! Kasey! Cassie! Kasey! You are invited to Friday Night Readings at David & Diane’s apartment 695 35th Ave. #204 San Francisco 415.221.4272 enjoy your favorite poets in a cozy environment with refreshments and friends… bring some beer, wine, or a snack coming up: Friday, May 30, 7.30pm ˆ Owen Hill and Alex Blasdel Owen Hill is the author of…

Happy birthday, SHAMPOO! The THIRD ANNIVERSARY ISSUE of SHAMPOO — Issue 17 — is now available for your follicular pleasure at: www.ShampooPoetry.com where you’ll find lovely new poems by Kirby Wright, Maw Shein Win, Dylan Willoughby, Nick Whittock, Eileen Tabios and David Hess, Alex Stolis, Juliana Spahr, Philippe Soupault (translated by Tom Hibbard), Shafer and Melissa, Phoebe Sayornis, Suzy Saul,…

Did anybody catch the article in the Sunday Times on blogging? I just came across it. It’s pretty fluffy–mostly about the perils of talking about your relationships on your blog and having your family and friends reading it. But the kicker: there is a sidebar proclaiming the emergence of, I kid you not, “the New York School of blogging,” a…

This just in. I imagine that half of you will laugh heartily at the other half of you that will now scramble to put together an abstract. Call for Papers Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs ABSTRACTS DUE JUNE 30, 2003 Ed. by the University of Minnesota Blog Collective Smiljana Antonijevic, Laura Gurak, Laurie Johnson, Jim Oliver,…

and it is not pursuing and it is not developing it is not building it is not manufacturing and it’s not deploying and it is not using

The kinds of things sleep-deprived grad students talk about: Last night I was asking a friend whether the title of the TV show “Judging Amy” was a pun or not. Our instinct was to say no. But we decided, like good grad students, to consult ye old OED: “The use of a word in such a way as to suggest…

Kasey thinks Jonathan Mayhew’s Blog needs a non-eponymous name. How about: “Mayhem!” I guess that’s sort of a compromise.