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Pew / Internet Qualitative Research
I was just surfing the Pew / Internet Project website to see what’s new and in the bottom of the site, left corner (wait, I have to check hands, cos I tend to mix up) I find the Your Input call for bloggers.
Are you a blogger?
Tell us why you created your blog, how often you post new material,
and what kind of impact your blog has had.
And tell us how to get to your blog.
Click here to answer.
They put quite some effort into blog-related research lately. I am looking forward to seeing the result of this one.
Bed torture
I am still confined to bed, it’s been more than a week now and I can’t take it anymore. Yesterday I tried to get out for a short while but my body immediately signalised it was not ready yet. So ok, I said, I give it another two days and then I am back to life;).
So, as it is, my life is very interesting these days. All I do is lie, eat and read blogs. I have read all the blogs I like criss-cross over and over again already, now I am waiting like a starved wolf for any new entries to pop up.
My ‘victim’ blogs at the moment are:
Lisa’s on the face - a blog, written in a way, that makes a reader feel every single word. Lisa is an incredible writer, whether her entries are on her personal life or just on life in general. She lives in Tel Aviv for the fifth year now and among all the great posts she wrote, there is an awesome series on How Lisa Came To Israel? along with all the ups and downs of bringing Middle East back to peace.
Allison’s An Unsealed Room - also an Israeli blog (actually I found this one first and then the snow ball effect happened). When reading Allison, I always imagine her as one of my senior colleagues at my uni, critical commentator of current affairs in Israel (I magine her as a great Foucauldian critical discourse analyst;)), and a very loving family woman.
Chayyei Sarah - yet another Israeli blog. Sarah is a master of provoking hot debates and discussions within the blogsphare. She’s the expert of throwing a bone (as we would say in Slovenian, but probably doesn’t make much sense in English). With the right amount of sarcasm, she manages to make her readers laugh but also to sit back and do some serious thinking. She’s all fun and I often end up laughing out loud.
A perfect marriage - recently discovered and figure out for your self, why I spend a considerable amount of time reading it. It’s a great blog on love of two middle-aged people and it’s a proof that love doesn’t neccessarily die after being together for 27 years.
All other blogs on my blogroll I don’t molest, but I visit them within reasonable frequencies.
Well, not that I’d be so bored, I have a to-do list waiting for me, really a long one, but I can’t start cracking just yet. Tho I could easily read some readings for my PhD or at least be thinking in this direction. Boooo! I want to get back to normal. The weather (despite constant light snowing) is nice for running and I can’t go. Or at least to take some nice walks! I lack my daily activities. Good that I have a laptop cos with a desk computer I’d be disconnected from internet as well. Which probably wouldn’t be so bad. Oh no, I think it would be quite useful. And even tho I have a laptop in my bed, I can’t work on those conference proposals that I need to, or work on my last RIS report. Cos it’s very uncomfortable having books, article and stuff around on the bed. It’s only suitable for the laptop. Excuses, excuses! Oh well, I will stop whining and go check my blogs again;))
By Nana | February 26, 2005 | Topics: Blogging, Research |