- Dude, I’m bored with Twitter, and I’m still not convinced about its usefulness. It’s still too much noise and chatter to sift through, such that any potentially useful information just drowns.
- Kearny Street Workshop plans to discontinue its Yahoogroup artist listserv* at the end of the year, and is now at http://kearnystreet.ning.com. I’d originally joined so that I could cross-post PAWA events there, and I have yet to see whether this will be useful for me and for PAWA. I am wondering if PAWA needs a Ning site for the benefit of org members who aren’t as vocal and unabashedly public as I am but would like a modest public space or placemarker.
- I’ve revamped the PAWA blog, and am hoping information is easier to find using this new template. One of the major limitations of the standard Blogger templates is the inability to create pages and tabs, as in WordPress; this makes us cram everything into sidebar widgets and I don’t like the clutter and vertical orientation of a million sidebar widgets. Actually, the new “pages” I’ve created — About, Archives, Contacts, Links — are really back dated blog posts. On the current PAWA blog, there are now tabs for frequently used categories such as Reviews, Books, Calls for Submissions. I’ve added an Opportunities category so that I can post more grants, fellowships, residencies, and arts jobs/positions calls. I actually prefer WordPress because there’s differentiation between Categories (general) and Tags (specific) but I do not want to change URL’s and cause any drop off in PAWA blog readers.
- As for my own e-places, this here blog and my website, I have to start thinking about my changeover; I’ll be transferring all of this to my proper author website, and this would be bjanepr’s nth e-move from Blogger to Blog-City, to WordPress, and then to the self-hosted author website. It just makes more sense as I continue paying for the website (whose beautiful design was created by Cindy Sacramento-Enriquez), to have that content be dynamic, easily update-able, and to be in control of it.
* Which leads to my question: is listserv done? It used to be the way to be connected; there’s one Filipino writers’ listserv to which I’ve been subscribed since 1999, and so much great discussion and debate used to occur there. I’d like to think it was a nice incubation space for events which brought together Filipino writers from everywhere (i.e. transnational), as well as publication and book reviews. In other words, community was practiced there. These days, this listserv is quiet and plagued with lurkers — the ones I referenced in a previous post, the lurkers who ended up lashing out in an ugly way because in their lurking, their uncommunicated needs were never met by what scant listserv activity takes place. This scant activity is really mostly my forwarding of diverse publishing, teaching, funding opportunities.
(Finally, PAWA also has a listserv, and I find that posting there and posting on the blog has become redundant. I think I’ll stop with the listserv posting then.)
I am tired Barbara. If I am tired you can imagine how the rest of the world may feel about the magnitude of all of it. Finally too much information. We need to have the internet talk to our hand for a while.
Didi