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Shameless Self-Promotion Time!

zuzu

I don’t mean me, I mean you.

Not real fond of the term “blogwhoring,” but this is your opportunity to do just that (and if you can think of a better term, please leave in comments). Leave a link to a post of yours — or someone else’s, even — with a brief description of what it is.

Your horn, it is to toot.

UPDATE: People, people, work with me, work with me. When you post a link, post a link to a post, not just your blog in general (that we could get by just clicking on your name). And just as imporantly, tell the class what the post is about. Because you’re burning to tell the world about it. It’s the Best! Post! EVAR! The Post To End All Posts! Uberpost!

‘Cause, you know, otherwise it’s nothing but a blogroll.

This is going to be at least a semi-regular feature, so post-by-post blogsturbation works better in this format.

Though, really. Cats. Herding.

Criminy.

70 thoughts on Shameless Self-Promotion Time!

  6. Great to meet you, too!

    I think I like blogsturbation.

    Ahem, people: please describe the posts you’re linking to so we don’t just see links.

    I swear, it’s just like herding cats. Hmph.

  12. Um, here’s my post about feces.

    OK, just kidding, it’s about the conservative reaction to a bill in Minnesota which would issue cards that people with ibd or ibs could show business owners, which would require the business to open its restrooms to the card bearer.

    Thanks for the opportunity to blogwhore; sometimes I say ‘blogpimp,’ which seems to kinda make more sense.

  15. I have two posts that I want to mention here, because I think they could be of interest to some.

    Is universal health care affordable in the US? takes a look at how much the current US health care system costs compared to the systems in the rest of the Western world, as well as the availability and quality of the current system.

    Universal health care as a progressive issue is my take on some of the resons why universal health care should be a key issue for any progressive.

    Both of these posts involves some number crushing, and should be good for data points when debating health care in the US.

    Obviously I have no first-hand experience with the US system, but seen from the outside, it’s a shocking system.

  16. Bean, you are not the same bean who used to post over at Alas, A Blog are you? It doesn’t appear so, looking at your blog, but just thought I’d ask, to be sure.

  17. I’m going to blogpimp my husband’s blog, because right now my blog is a bunch of posts about my new obsession, knitting, and so is not terribly interesting to others.

    He has a pretty good review of eMusic and what he’s been using it for: Cheap Music – An Update

  18. Sadly, I am not the same bean as the one who used to be at Alas! a blog. It’s a childhood nickname that has turned out to be much more common than I realized!

  19. Sorry for the OT, but I’m really curious – how come when I was trillian I was always automatically in moderation, but I’m not anymore?

    No idea. We have a huge list of very pedestrian terms that have turned up in pr0n spam, and if your email or URL had any of those terms, you’d wind up in moderation.

  20. My wife gave birth to our second daughter at home not too long ago, with two midwives, myself, and our four-year-old in attendance. I know a lot of folks are curious about homebirth, and it’s a pretty great story, so here it is.

    (It’s a two-part post — part two is here.)

  21. I feel bad de-lurking to sell my blogging soul, but not too bad, apparently. Am I cheating if I post a link to a post that has links to more posts?

    Just so you know what you’re getting yourselves into if you commit your mouse finger, I’m a pro-feminist religious/gender studies grad student who recently left Mormonism. I share a blog with a former Catholic. We probably gripe about religion more than we do patriarchy. She brings in all of the feministe links, and I tend to link to Pandagon (please don’t hold this against me!)

  22. Fine then! I just did a post on all the buzz surrounding Black Snake Moan (which no, I haven’t seen yet) and pondering some of the ignorant shit it’s director/writer has said in defense of it. I wish I’d touched on the mythical “nymphomania” crap, but I was sick, and so there.

  23. I have a post up responding to a post on Shakespeare’s Sister, which could be of interest to some. It addresses that old chestnut, “Why are you SO angry?” 😀

  28. BTW, I’ve had Kristjan Wager’s blog in my bloglines feeder for awhile now and I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the intersection of science and progressive politics.

    Go Kristjan!

  29. I’ve just put up a post about the lone Australian detainee in Guantanamao Bay, David Hicks, who is likely to be the first “unlawful combatant” tried in the flawed military commission process after five years confinement. All the original “worst of the worst” charges have been dropped as unprovable, and he is being charged for “material aid to terrorism” for being captured while guarding a Taliban tank.

    The chief US military prosecutor for the Gitmo cases has accused Hicks’ military defender, JAG officer Major Michael Mori (USMC), of violating Article 88 of the UCMJ by using “contemptuous language” referring to the President, Vice-President, etc. This is a transparent attempt at intimidation, so that Mori will put pressure on his client to take a plea-bargain that will see him found guilty, sent back to Oz, and set free on bail, thus not embarrassing either the Aust. or the US government by showing that his detention has been a travesty all along.

    I would love to see this case given more attention in the US progblogosphere. Post at my blog [link] and cross-posted at an ozpolitics group blog [link]

  30. It’s Estrogen Month celebration at Pen-Elayne, where readers get to nominate their favorite pop-culture feminist bloggers all month! And at the end of the month on March 31, I’ll be hosting the Twelfth Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy Fans; come on by!

  34. I’m the idiot obviously who posted the wrong information! If you could delete that possibly I would appreciate it.
    So this is it

    I’m a bit slow on the tech stuff.
    Thanks and enjoy!

  35. No idea. We have a huge list of very pedestrian terms that have turned up in pr0n spam, and if your email or URL had any of those terms, you’d wind up in moderation.

    Thank you, zuzu, for indulging my very random curiosity 😀

    The longer I read this thread, the more “blogsturbation” grows on me. So much so that I can’t resist the urge to do it again:

    I wrote this post this morning in response to a column titled “Why There Are Almost No Genuine Atheists,” which used the argument that a “purported atheist’s” environmentalism cannot but be based on a belief in god(s). Atheists are moral, therefore they don’t exist.

  36. I am honored — and thrilled — that blogsturbation seems to be taking hold as the word of choice.

    See where I coined it here.

    Another word I have tried to bring into use: clitzpa

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  39. Damn, I haven’t written anything profound in weeks. I’m glad this’ll be a regular feature. I’ll be ready for next time.

  41. I apologize for breaking the “don’t link to your whole blog” rule, but since this is just a little hatchling of a blog, I hope you’ll forgive me.

    It’s a blog about women’s issues such as dignity and equality, as seen through current events (mostly from a Canadian perspective) and from a legal point of view.

    For example, the last post is about a PETA protest on Parliament hill in Ottawa, where female protesters laid naked in the snow, covered in fake blood, for a whole hour, while male protested were standing nearby, fully and warmly clothed, by -15 Celcius, to protest Canada’s tolerance of allegedly inhumane seal hunting practices.

    So here it is:

    Justice is a Woman with a Sword

    Thanks!

    Keep up the good work!

  42. I’m an anarcho-syndaclist who blogs inconsistently here. I chaired for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, and Students for A Free Tibet in Santa Barbara, but my interests grew to larger meta-concepts about politics and social condition. I firmly believe that we are not free until we are all free, and feminism is a critical aspect of attaining a truly free society.

    In terms of feminism I mostly align with anarchist feminists, and I reject systems like marriage (which has evolved from a system of trading property) and dating (just an extension of courtship that’s evolved with women’s rights and the emphasis on human attraction over politics and property but flawed since it was created for property and not human happiness). I’ve written some screenplays and shorts about this, and intend to write a more thorough explanation of my philosophy on this subject.

    Most of what I do, I do not get paid for but the commercial things I have done started with being the webmaster for jackjohnsonmusic.com before he got his record deal, and then filming him and some related bands. I left the music industry because people were asking me to do some other random bands I didn’t have as much respect for, and went to India to meditate and study eastern philosophy some more, after which now I’m doing commercial work until I can buy my freedom in this capitalist state and redirect my attention more to creating solutions.

    If you need a dentist check out SmileConnection.com, and I’m also creating a hemp online store — frankly it’s all quite boring and I enjoy my unpaid work of mostly doing research and reading online — which is how I recently ran into this blog.

  43. This post compares several very different nations in the world. On Trinifar I write about the problems of increasing population and increasing consumption in a finite world. Or if you want immediate gratification look at this one which addresses economic class differences.

    Thanks for providing the opportunity to advertise my blog.

  45. I like Amptoons. It’s a liberal blog. I’ve been reading it for a while now, and never quite figured out what they focus on if they focus on any one particular subject.

  47. Well, since Lauren started with an ill-thought through toot, I feel comfortable sounding one of my own:

    I’m over at Acephalous arguing that despite his legendary misogyny, there was a moment when Dave Sim could’ve gone the other way. What we have in him is someone who teetered on the edge of insanity–who, with the proper guidance, could’ve produced lesser art but been a better person–but someone who embraced the insanity instead of face reality. (And no, I’m not being a contrarian here. I do believe the most baldly insane of modern misogynists could’ve been saved had he not thought himself into an artificial corner.)

  50. A little old, but this is some of my better writing as of late, I think. It’s on judging the authenticity of identity, particularly trans identity.

  51. BTW, I’ve had Kristjan Wager’s blog in my bloglines feeder for awhile now and I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the intersection of science and progressive politics.

    Wow. Thanks Lauren.

    I am sure that I don’t have to tell the rest of the readers here what a awesome blog Lauren has, but if people haven’t checked Lauren’s blog out, they should.

  60. For those who love feminism and animation:

    This is about a panel I went to see hosted by Geena Davis’ group See Jane about women in animation, which I thought would be awesome but was not.

    And this is part one of my attempt to analyze animated films from a feminist perspective. Part two…is taking its time…

  61. I originally wanted to start a blog just so I could “refute” things that Adam Corrolla and Dr. Drew said on Loveline. I know it’s stupid and silly but for a while I was addicted to listening to old MP3s of the show. Stuff dating from 2002-2006. I had a job doing data-entry and I would listen to maybe 5-6 hours of Loveline a DAY.

    Of course listening to Adam Corrolla just makes you want to shake your fist at him ALL THE TIME. He is the definition of a radio pig. (Dr. Drew is the gentlemanly version of it.)

    It was funny though how propaganda works. After listening to the “Adam Corrolla” view of women for 5 hours a day, five days a week I started seeing the world of male-female relationships through his eyes. This is kind of bad. Anyway blogging was my attempt to break myself of thinking like him.

    http://bitchkittie.blogspot.com/2006/02/radio-last-bastion-of-open-misogyny.html

    http://bitchkittie.blogspot.com/2006/02/radio-misogyny-ii-its-coincidental.html

  64. I am just a wee feminist and still working out what I mean when I say that, so my blog post is focusing on my interest in Women’s History.

    Is it really her story?

    I’m writing about Women’s History every weekday this month. (Kinda – it was a holiday here on Monday and I forgot it still counted as a weekday in the rest of the world.)

  67. i’ve never liked the term “blogwhoring” either. i kind of like “selling my blogging soul” but i’m a sucker for the underdog. if that one’s catapulted to the top, i may like it less. “shameless self-promotion” works for me.

    writing is not my forte and i have no single outstanding post worth pointing out, but i do have two projects i’ve let languish and would really like to get back to —

    The Goat Rope Challenge, an attempt to define my vision of a just society, inspired by the blogger El Cabrero;

    a letter-writing campaign, in which i attempt to e-mail everybody in congress, primarily about my antiiwar views.

  68. Suzanne Frank blogs as Zuska * over at scienceblogs about women in engineering and science. She’s awesome. In this post, she ably explains text vs. subtext and why statements that we think are perfectly reasonable and not biased at all actually exist against a cultural backdrop and can be loaded with mysogyny. There’s a bit of a blog dust-up behind this post, but the post stands pretty well on its own.

    http://scienceblogs.com/thusspakezuska/2006/12/stereotypes_and_subtext_a_wee.php

    *I’m not outing her, she uses her real name, too.

  70. I decided to celebrate day against sexism by taking a look at a study out of the UK that talks about the importance of the dad in child-rearing. Anything that breaks the old daddy breadwinner/mommy stay-at-home stereotype is good news in my opinion.

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