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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Pin the Tail
To your health - I hope the summer finds all of you enjoying the pace of things, slowing down as much as possible to savor Bloomington garden tomatoes, swimming with friends, escaping the heat by cooling off in fun little hideaways about town…and, most of all, I hope you’re all in radiant good health…so far we’ve passed the summer [...]
IU Press
Book excerpt: Albee in Performance - Rakesh H. Solomon's new book, Albee in Performance, details Albee's directorial vision and how that vision animates his plays. Having had extraordinary access to Albee as director, Solomon reveals how Albee has shaped his plays in performance, the attention he...
The Hoosier Scoop
Live chat at 11 a.m. - As per usual, Hugh and I will be here.
MoBFlog
Fried Green Tomato Lasagna (lasagne verdi fritti di pomodoro) - I know that a few months ago I said I would update this more often. I thought I would but then forgot, I know, lame excuse! I am going to do better, I promise. Every time one of my friends sent me a message asking about it, I would sit down and go through recipes [...]
My Plate or Yours
Hog Heaven! (with menu updates) - (You can click on the poster to read it more clearly. Details follow below) Slow Food Bloomington is proud to be part of the Bloomington Eats Green Weekend -- three events celebrating local sustainable eating in January. First, two speakers: On Friday, January 22, noted ethnobotanist (and native Hoosier!) Gary Nabhan, is speaking on "Renewing America's Food Traditions." On Saturday, January 23, Joel Salatin, of Polyface Farms, who has been featured in the Omnivore's Dilemma and Food Inc., will bring his irreverent touch to "Holy Cows and Hog Heaven." Both talks are in Woodburn 100 on the IU Campus, from 6-7:30 p.m., free and open to the public And then the food! Sunday, January 24, Slow Food Bloomington presents "Hog Heaven: A Celebration of Local Pork from Snout to Tail (that's everything but the oink!)" From 3-6 p.m. in Alumni Hall of the Indiana Memorial Union, 14 local chefs will...
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