but I’m swamped at work.  no personal life anymore.

Courts use article “Researching With Wikipedia” to figure out if Wikipedia met the standards of reliability the American Justice Decision deserves.

Slightly ironic?

(1) Lawrence Downes writes “It’s my first suburban Long Island middle school talent show” in the NYTimes. He describes feeling uncomfortable while watching middle schoolers dance to lyrics like “Jerk it like you’re making it choke. …Ohh. I’m so stimulated. Feel so X-rated.”

The article is called “Middle School Girls Gone Wild.”

Indeed.

(2) The “blog slut” goes to battle in the courts.

(3) FEW LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL TEENS TELL THEIR DOCTOR

(4) “Coming out in Kansas” or “Up yours Rev. Phelps”

Ms. Slayton, the Mission Hills resident, likes to tell the story of the elderly lesbian aunt of a friend. When the woman died some years ago, Ms. Slayton said, the family learned for the first time that she had been in a long-term relationship with a woman. She came out at her funeral, through the medium of her tombstone. She requested that it read: “I didn’t miss half the fun you think I did.” From the article.

Today on the subway ride into work, I was looking through the New School course catalog.  I was in the media studies section when I discovered they offered a class on how to blog! Here is a description:

Limited to 14. Creating a personal or professional blog space is now almost as common as using an email account. Although still largely produced with text and still images, blogging has quickly become a time-based activity that incorporates video and audio. This course surveys blogs and vblogs, critiquing and analyzing both popular and more obscure sites. Students create their own vblog on one of a variety of free hosting sites and produce a unique space online. (0 credits)

The class actually sounds very interesting.  And even earlier today I was thinking that not only do people have multiple email addresses but multiple blogs.

Then I though should I take this class!? I quickly decided no that I could learn about blogging from some of my favorite bloggers by just reading their sites. And really this is all for me anyway. I’m glad my friends (and maybe family members) read it.  I started wondering if people are going to build blogging resumes and include whether they have taken a blogging class.  Maybe I should learn about vblogs….