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.
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More Local Blogs
Pin the Tail
Margaret Cho: Let My People Go - Margaret Cho blogs about the journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling in an entry on her blog called Let My People Go:
I am very concerned about Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the American journalists for Current TV who just got sentenced to 12 years in a North Korean labor camp. It’s alarming and [...]
IU Press
This is the closest I'll ever get to Johnny Depp
The Hoosier Scoop
Happy 4th of July - Enjoy.
Basketblog
Rivals and Scout post new rankings for 2010 athletes
Meg Cabot
Win Prizes! Vital Writing Questions Answered! BEA video - Happy 4th of July (in advance)!
4th of July is one of my favorite holidays because it involves eating delicious grilled foods, explosions, and water sports (depending on where you live, of course).
In fact it was a year ago this 4th of July that I was snorkeling and my snorkeling partner purposefully woke [...]
MoBFlog
Pizza Dough – 2 different kinds - Some recent comments from friends on Facebook inspired me to post a couple of recipes for pizza dough. The first is for a whole wheat dough. My favorite pizza using this dough is a The Veggie. Ricotta cheese(with oregano and garlic stirred in) instead of tomato sauce, green peppers, red onions, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes cut [...]
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.
- The Other Other Room Our kids say the dardnest things
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