Comments on: answers to bizarre questions

By: A.T.

A.T. — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:06:25 +0000

well, to me zephyr always had been that sweet marshmallow-alike called зефир (zefeer) in Russian

By: Nav

Nav — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:53:29 +0000

Heh. I was just being silly with the belly button lint question, but that’s really interesting. I was actually really curious about Eric’s suggestion that we need to think about a ‘post-textual’ identity. Coming from a literary perspective, everything seems textual, but I also keep bumping up against the limits of that perspective online. Fascinating stuff.

Oh, I second the (gentle) exhortation to start Twittering – someone once described it as ‘asynchronous intimacy’ and it’s a description that has stuck with me. It can be really great sometimes. I’m at twitter.com/scrawledinwax

By: Tad

Tad — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:27:48 +0000

Also, having followed both Jorge and Alison’s work for years, and having met both of them, I think the best answer to that question is “both.”

By: Tad

Tad — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:26:09 +0000

Ben– that’s why I (and I hope this doesn’t make me sound creepy or stalkerish) have the RSS of danah’s (and some other edubloggers’) del.icio.us on my feed reader.

I like the feeling of reading what the people whose work I respect are reading… And it’s fun to read an article and then see ‘em refer to it in a blog post a couple days later.

I personally love Twitter, but I’m a semi-late adopter, and I know some people just don’t care for it. I think it’s one of those things that will really get you excited or really turn you off, depending on your tastes.

By: Ben Kunz

Ben Kunz — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:46:36 +0000

Thanks for explaining the belly button lint.

Seriously, Danah, I just read your past posts on Twitter (from about a year ago) and think you’ve underestimated it. Your blog and papers are brilliant, but you haven’t adopted the most fluid SM tool. Pu-lease reconsider posting on Twitter more often, a lot of people would be interested in your short takes on social media trends, or short intelligent bursts in general. I promise to follow.