These are the interesting people we like, places we visit, and communities of interest.
The blogs excerpted below (in no particular order) are all local to Bloomington, either because the author lives in the area or blogs about it. To my knowledge, this is the most complete list available, although we encourage others to add to our list.
Download this OPML file to upload into your own RSS reader. Google Reader is a nice, easy tool to use if you want to follow the latest from these local authors. This file was last updated on July 16, 2008.
More Local Blogs
Pin the Tail
Miffed about TIFs - Check it out and think it over in light of what is happening locally– (our not-for-profit hospital is seriously discussing moving to a tax increment finance district on the north side of the county…)
This article from yesterday’s Wall Street Journal:
Nonprofit Hospitals Leave The City for Greener Pastures
Ascension’s approach to the Detroit market is an increasingly [...]
IU Press
IU Press authors' work displayed at new Indianapolis airport - The Indianapolis International Airport selected Jeffrey Wolin's work to be featured in its gallery space. Sixteen of the 30 photographs Wolin took for his book, New Faces at the Crossroads, will be on display when the airport opens Nov. 12....
The Hoosier Scoop
Thursday chat - We’ll be here for our regular Thursday 11 a.m. Q&A to discuss the state of the Hoosier football team, this week’s Illinois game, the arrival of Hoosier Hysteria and whatever else is on your mind.
You can submit your questions and comments, or just follow along, by clicking here.
Basketblog
Meet the Hoosiers video: Nick Williams
Meg Cabot
World Wide Tour Part Six, Singapore and Thailand - Guess where I am? If you guessed the place in the photo below you’d be correct. I’m actually writing this on the last day of my last stop on my world wide book tour!
I can’t believe it’s gone by so fast. Well, okay, I can. It was a lot of [...]
MoBFlog
“Mouthwatering Monroe County” Cookbook -
Do you have a recipe you would like to share? How about shring it with the Monroe County History Center? They are going to publish another awesome cookbook. You can visit their web page for directions on submitting your recipes, either online or using a form available at the site. http://www.monroehistory.org/cookbook2.htm
If you have not visited [...]
My Plate or Yours
Watercress Soup! - The Chefs Dinner is a couple of weeks past now, fabulous as always. We’ve been buzzing with guests and good food here and I am fighting a deadline on our textbook revisions (should be done in a month, except for the copyediting, etc.) but I do intend to get back to blogging – I miss it. Meanwhile, I had a request for the recipe for the sublime watercress soup Chef Daniel Orr (FARMbloomington) made for the dinner and like the good guy he is, he sent it right away. He used rice as the thickener for the one he made for the dinner, but says this one with potato is good too. Make it quick, while the markets still have watercress – and serve it chilled! Wild Creek Cress Soup Makes 2- 2 1/2 qts. 5 bunches watercress- stems and leaves separated 2 onions, sliced 6 cloves garlic 2 potatoes-...
First Principles
Parenthetical Remarks
Communities
- 3rd Party Building government from the ground up
- Bloomington Online Local online community and tools for Bloomington, Indiana
- Bloomington RootsCamp RootsCamp is a local political unconference being planned for Nov. 18-19, 2006
- Cambrian House
- DandeLife Kelly Abbott’s blog for the DandeLife social biography networking tool
- HCI Cartel A community of former classmates at the School of Informatics
- Monroe-Bloomington Talk A traditional forum serving the local Bloomington and Monroe County area
- The Edge An outgrowth of The Reality Club, this organization promotes inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues
- WikiSym 2006 The official wiki for the 2006 WikiSym conference in Denmark
Favorites
- About the name Makice How we Makices got our name
- Flowers for Amy A virtual bouquet to Amy from Kevin while at WikiSym 2006
- My Life as an Isbister Some links while former-ego surfing my 20th century name
- Why Amy is Vegetarian Some background information that went into Amy’s decision to become a vegtarian
News
- Indiana Daily Student The IDS is the student newspaper for Indiana University
- The Bloomington Alternative Committed to progressive social change and independent journalism
People to See
- A Gaggle of Girls Rachel and her girls
- A.J. Jacobs Jacobs is a writer for Esquire who does some unusual socio-technological experiments
- Aleisha’s blog A mostly homeschooling blog
- annalise
- Audio Prof Our friend, Rob Potter
- Carol’s art Grandma Carol has her own online gallery.
- David Wilcox I don’t know him, but I have interest in some of the things he writes about eDemocracy
- Drift and Diffusion AJ’s blog
- Erik Pukinskis The consummate graduate student takes his designerly brain to new places
- Gerri Newfry Gerri married my good friend John and loves to work with pretty paper
- Gretchen Watch out. . . there’s cussing.
- Jacob Voss Wikimetrics: a wiki research blog
- Jake McKee The Community Guy is about community building
- Josh Evnin An HCI grad from IU
- Julie Polito, Middle School best friend of Amy
- Liesl My friend with the ferrets
- Mamas Stilettos
- Mike Schneider Mike Schneider … personal blog on poker (et al)
- msLaura Presents Laura’s blog
- Pin the Tail Sophia Travis, currently serving on the Monroe County Council as an at-large representative
- The Needs of the Few Eddy Riou as Evil Spock, a funny local blogger
- Zack Exley
Places to Go
- All Sorts of Crazy Smarts for Kids
- Creative Family Resources supports families in being connected to each other, to themselves, and to the core values that guide them.
Resources
- AboutUs Wiki of web sites … an alternative Internet directory
- Bloomington Online Information about Bloomington, Indiana
- CraigsList The user-driven CraigsList site for Bloomington, Indiana
- Design Bibliography Wiki Collect and annotate resources of interest to the human-computer interaction, social-computing, and information systems design communities.
- DFA Night School Democracy for America’s online instruction on political activism
- http://www.blogthings.com/ Things (i.e. polls) to put on blogs
- Journal of Community Informatics JCI aims to bring together a global range of academics, CI practitioners and policy makers.
- MacFixit
- Math World Stephen Wolfram’s research company has this great resource on all things math
- Ohloh Ohloh is a resource for open source intelligence on thousands of open source projects.
- The Knowledge Tree An online journal about learning innovations
- Urban Dictionary Slang terms, as defined by the community at large
- WidgetBox A blog about a web widget resource site
- WP Plugins WordPress blog plug-ins compatible with v2.0